Just change the name - Sword Art Online had the "laser sword". It's as valid as renaming Snarf to Jar-Jar and then making the character horribly annoying.
What goes around comes around unfortunately. Remember all that stink about Wikileaks beign anti-american due to not mentioning things unrelated to the USA. Apparently winning an award for exposing corruption in Kenya didn't count.
Same stupid game different players - shooting the messenger as an Olympic level sport.
He's the last one who would not lie to your face to tell you he was great. None of them since have made that mistake. Since then it's been "heck of a job" instead of actually delivering bad news. Carter's failures were blamed on honesty versus slick salesmanship hence the America of today where 100% salesmanship and no substance is seen as Presidential material. There's been many Presidents better than Carter, but how would you compare him to the current nominations and the current President? Do you honestly think Trump, Cruz or Hillary (Sanders will be locked out by party machinery) would handle an oil shock better than the one that made things difficult for Carter?
It isn't very "smart" at all, which made it cheap, which is why we are using USB and not firewire. Consider how even USB storage consumes a lot of CPU cycles to deal with.
It's a relatively simple and straight forward engineering problem
Just add money, time and a large number of people to be trained to construct, fabricate and operate equipment that only a handful of people now close to retirement age can do. It's a complex, difficult and time consuming engineering problem involving spending time constructing prototypes of anything newer than 1970s nuclear technology, spending time testing them, revising the designs and then finding a way to scale up to building more than a couple of reactors at a time. I don't object to doing that, in fact I think it's a really good idea. I only object to it being framed as being an easy thing to do and suggest that it's not a good idea to phrase things that way or you could get labelled as either a blatant lair or depressingly ignorant about a topic you advocate.
100% of all the energy use in the US
Nuclear reactors are big and generate a lot of power per unit - that's kind of the main point for using them in the first place. A consequence of a nuclear monoculture would be a supply curve with great big steps of 500MW or so - somebody needs another 2MW and you have to bring another 500MW unit online. That costs. Among other things every time you have a heating and cooling cycle that reduces the life of the unit a bit - do it a lot and the unit may last half as many years as desired. Filling in the gaps is what small gas fired units and a pile of other things are for. Anyone pushing a monoculture is either selling something or an idiot and I don't think you want to be mistaken for either of those even if your 100% is for illustration purposes.
Comparing fuel to batteries totally ignores that they are not feeding the same types of engines. You have to compare entire systems to each other, thus jet engine plus fuel and electric motor plus batteries.
It's like the mistake with the all ceramic engine project - fantastic performance on a test rig but as soon as you wanted the thing to move the extra weight of the cooling system exceeded the benefits.
There has not been the R&D to make those "safer modern designs" into physical objects and ensure that a prototype works as designed and can be altered to produce something good enough to go into production. Software models don't quite match up to reality in a lot of areas guys. The real world has turbulent flow and other stuff that doesn't model well.
what are we going to be creating the additional electricity with?
A mixture of different electricity generation methods, including a small number of 1970s style nuclear AP1000 units currently planned or under construction. Not having a monoculture means not being held hostage by a single industry with a small number of major players among a range of other benefits, which is one reason why some in the oil industry are pushing hard against windmills and anything else they see as a threat to their influence. Also demand has been dropping so the "additional electricity" is not going to be very hard to plan for at all - there is already spare capacity so if demand starts ramping up again there's a bit of time to build more stuff before it exceeds what's already available or under construction.
Citation required - this incident of someone stripping in front of kids, being asked to leave and then nobody doing anything sounds like a total work of badly written fiction. Real people take responsibility and take a duty of care seriously instead of being cartoon strawmen.
Most of his stuff has somewhat more grown up robots with much larger butts. Some of them are even shiny metal. It's the future - I don't care about flying cars but where are the policewomen with no pants on motorbikes that look like they belong in the space program?
At this point, your inability to understand the very basics of how our legal framework works
Now that is funny - are you suggesting no law against wearing shoes means "no shoes no service" is not possible? The inability is not mine, and not yours either since you are pretending to be far more ignorant than you could possibly be.
Stripping in front of kids in an area specifically designated for removing clothing cannot be considered a violation of the law.
Maybe I should have put the bit about disturbing the peace in bold with a old style blink tag and some bright red on the word "disturbing". Offend people and they can throw you out. As you know. Why are you acting like a five year old?
Hummingbird had a far better product for MS Windows many years earlier and it was still available when "Services for Unix" came out. It wasn't just X it was NFS as well. It was not cheap but it actually worked (so long as you had your screen in 8 bit mode using X but that was the only bit that cared).
All of that can be done in software. The only reason we are whining about it is that the system with the problems is closed source and the owners of the system are not open to suggestions.
Lots of USB/driver vulnerabilities can be triggered without running "software" on the USB host
Yes but far easier exploits are possible using standard USB memory devices due to moronic choices providing vunerabilities. Script kiddy level not electronic lab level.
The fact that keyboards and mice are USB is the core issue- that was always a bad idea. There should have been a NON universal plug for user input devices, an evolution of PS/2 type connectors or something
That screws up people that want more than one, such as home theatre setups where one keyboard is wireless to USB dongle for a trivial example or those presentation laser pointers with "page up" "page down" for another. Personally I think it is the responsibility of the system (in userland not kernel) to deal with this instead of it being in hardware.
No the problem here is you are pretending that you do not understand how society works for the sake of a very deluded argument. As you well know, people can be told to leave premises for even very trivial reasons and that can escalate as needed. No shoes no service.
could have legally acted to have him removed for disturbing the peace.
Stripping in front of kids also classes as disturbing the peace so your own argument proves you wrong.
Why are you pretending to be so stupid? What axe to grind do you have that is so important that you will lower yourself so far?
it was a public facility and as such the workers are not able to refuse service to anyone
Oh really? So I can go into that place, yell scream and shout and do anything short of a felony and not be asked to leave? Seriously? I'm very offended that you think the readers here are stupid and ignorant enough to fall for that. You've gone way too far. I suggest you apologise.
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Just change the name - Sword Art Online had the "laser sword".
It's as valid as renaming Snarf to Jar-Jar and then making the character horribly annoying.
No helmet means the idiot was not taking it seriously.
What goes around comes around unfortunately. Remember all that stink about Wikileaks beign anti-american due to not mentioning things unrelated to the USA. Apparently winning an award for exposing corruption in Kenya didn't count.
Same stupid game different players - shooting the messenger as an Olympic level sport.
A lot of it is outright fraud.
Public shaming is part of that if only a small part - time to wake up pentagon fake crash fake engineer boy.
He's the last one who would not lie to your face to tell you he was great. None of them since have made that mistake.
Since then it's been "heck of a job" instead of actually delivering bad news. Carter's failures were blamed on honesty versus slick salesmanship hence the America of today where 100% salesmanship and no substance is seen as Presidential material.
There's been many Presidents better than Carter, but how would you compare him to the current nominations and the current President? Do you honestly think Trump, Cruz or Hillary (Sanders will be locked out by party machinery) would handle an oil shock better than the one that made things difficult for Carter?
It isn't very "smart" at all, which made it cheap, which is why we are using USB and not firewire.
Consider how even USB storage consumes a lot of CPU cycles to deal with.
Yes. The AP1000 is not modern by any definition applying beyond 1980.
Just add money, time and a large number of people to be trained to construct, fabricate and operate equipment that only a handful of people now close to retirement age can do.
It's a complex, difficult and time consuming engineering problem involving spending time constructing prototypes of anything newer than 1970s nuclear technology, spending time testing them, revising the designs and then finding a way to scale up to building more than a couple of reactors at a time.
I don't object to doing that, in fact I think it's a really good idea. I only object to it being framed as being an easy thing to do and suggest that it's not a good idea to phrase things that way or you could get labelled as either a blatant lair or depressingly ignorant about a topic you advocate.
Nuclear reactors are big and generate a lot of power per unit - that's kind of the main point for using them in the first place. A consequence of a nuclear monoculture would be a supply curve with great big steps of 500MW or so - somebody needs another 2MW and you have to bring another 500MW unit online. That costs. Among other things every time you have a heating and cooling cycle that reduces the life of the unit a bit - do it a lot and the unit may last half as many years as desired. Filling in the gaps is what small gas fired units and a pile of other things are for. Anyone pushing a monoculture is either selling something or an idiot and I don't think you want to be mistaken for either of those even if your 100% is for illustration purposes.
How much did it weigh?
Comparing fuel to batteries totally ignores that they are not feeding the same types of engines. You have to compare entire systems to each other, thus jet engine plus fuel and electric motor plus batteries.
It's like the mistake with the all ceramic engine project - fantastic performance on a test rig but as soon as you wanted the thing to move the extra weight of the cooling system exceeded the benefits.
There has not been the R&D to make those "safer modern designs" into physical objects and ensure that a prototype works as designed and can be altered to produce something good enough to go into production.
Software models don't quite match up to reality in a lot of areas guys. The real world has turbulent flow and other stuff that doesn't model well.
A mixture of different electricity generation methods, including a small number of 1970s style nuclear AP1000 units currently planned or under construction. Not having a monoculture means not being held hostage by a single industry with a small number of major players among a range of other benefits, which is one reason why some in the oil industry are pushing hard against windmills and anything else they see as a threat to their influence.
Also demand has been dropping so the "additional electricity" is not going to be very hard to plan for at all - there is already spare capacity so if demand starts ramping up again there's a bit of time to build more stuff before it exceeds what's already available or under construction.
No but electric motors have improved a great deal.
Citation required - this incident of someone stripping in front of kids, being asked to leave and then nobody doing anything sounds like a total work of badly written fiction. Real people take responsibility and take a duty of care seriously instead of being cartoon strawmen.
Most of his stuff has somewhat more grown up robots with much larger butts. Some of them are even shiny metal.
It's the future - I don't care about flying cars but where are the policewomen with no pants on motorbikes that look like they belong in the space program?
Now that is funny - are you suggesting no law against wearing shoes means "no shoes no service" is not possible? The inability is not mine, and not yours either since you are pretending to be far more ignorant than you could possibly be.
Maybe I should have put the bit about disturbing the peace in bold with a old style blink tag and some bright red on the word "disturbing". Offend people and they can throw you out.
As you know.
Why are you acting like a five year old?
Hummingbird had a far better product for MS Windows many years earlier and it was still available when "Services for Unix" came out. It wasn't just X it was NFS as well. It was not cheap but it actually worked (so long as you had your screen in 8 bit mode using X but that was the only bit that cared).
All of that can be done in software. The only reason we are whining about it is that the system with the problems is closed source and the owners of the system are not open to suggestions.
I assumed the latter was some sort of attempt at a joke. It looks like it.
Yes but far easier exploits are possible using standard USB memory devices due to moronic choices providing vunerabilities. Script kiddy level not electronic lab level.
That screws up people that want more than one, such as home theatre setups where one keyboard is wireless to USB dongle for a trivial example or those presentation laser pointers with "page up" "page down" for another. Personally I think it is the responsibility of the system (in userland not kernel) to deal with this instead of it being in hardware.
As you well know, people can be told to leave premises for even very trivial reasons and that can escalate as needed. No shoes no service.
Stripping in front of kids also classes as disturbing the peace so your own argument proves you wrong.
Why are you pretending to be so stupid? What axe to grind do you have that is so important that you will lower yourself so far?
Oh really? So I can go into that place, yell scream and shout and do anything short of a felony and not be asked to leave? Seriously?
I'm very offended that you think the readers here are stupid and ignorant enough to fall for that. You've gone way too far. I suggest you apologise.