The current printing material (ABS plastic) is significantly less suitable for gun barrels than many types of wood, let alone steel, so it's going to be a bit longer than that. Besides, we already have hobby lathes cheaper than 3D printers that can do high quality rifled barrels. It may take a full weekend to learn how to do it, but probably nowhere near that for many.
See how this whole gun control thing doesn't work?
It's almost as if people are pushing for 3D printer control, but I'd say the reality is attention seeking idiots looking for a 3D printing option that will offend and scare yet is not pornographic so can make it onto the TV news.
Not being able to postpone updates renders the machine no longer viable as a games machine which is what quite a few of those Win7 Home installs are used for. Try setting automatic updates and running Skyrim or some other full screen game and you will see what I mean - unexpected reboots without time to save a game are very annoying. However, if Win10 doesn't have a win7 style start menu (where users can eventually find the program they know is on the system but can't remember the name of) we are going to be in for a lot more annoyance even if it's just helping out relatives. MS have had menu structures for so long that people have remembered the path to launch something instead of the name, and removing that to push people back to a command line style search is a huge game changer. Helping people find stuff in Win8 is already a massive time sink and hardly anyone uses it.
at 12 years of age as part of the school curriculum, when around here we'd probably try to bring someone up on charges for doing that
Really? I was definitely going on Boy Scout trips to the rifle range at that age - learning that guns are a dangerous but useful tool and not something to leave loaded in the shopping cart for a 4 year old to fire like the 2nd amendment idiots.
Maybe I'm too cynical but that's how I'd see it going - a sensible minimum standard hijacked and turned into a barrier to new players entering the market with collatoral damage of linux, freebsd etc. Such a thing could be avoided if the general public can get in on the rule drafting process.
I don't believe that there has been any extensive testing of Synroc
You may not believe it but I do because I listened to a seminar by a guy that had been testing it for a few years, and that was in 1987! The material hasn't changed since then but there have been improvements on how to produce it. Amazing results on a low budget and a good example showing that the main players in the nuclear lobby want to pretend that there is no waste problem and really don't want to do any research at all.
I've long considered glassification to be a reasonable approach to develop
Leaching is a problem as identified in the early 1960s - get the glass encapsulated material wet and stuff starts to get out over time (via water in the grain boundaries) - hence Synroc which uses encorporation with chemical bonds, making the radioactive compounds insoluble in water, instead of wrapping untreated waste up (encapsulation) in glassy phases. The radioactive material is mixed in quantities selected so that heat will not be a problem. If it is then the mix is wrong.
The thing is, this is deciding that we're going to throw away most of the recoverable energy
It's a waste management solution for the active stuff you cannot reprocess. Reprocessing is not magic that puts everything in a new fuel rod, it's instead about putting everything good enough to go into a new fuel rod and there is active material left over.
What's really needed is a way to make that useful, not just a better way to throw it away.
That would be nice but reprocessing isn't a way to eliminate waste it's just a way of getting something useful out of some of the waste.
Very paranoid sort of guy very quick to accuse aren't you? There's a link on that page to sign up for free for a week or two.
That you're claiming to be a peer review expert
Not much more than general knowledge is enough and working in a research environment is overkill to see you are just making stuff up as a complete outsider based on very poor information and bias. Go talk to a scientist or an engineer FFS before spreading so much bullshit.
Ah! A State's Right's sort of person who wants to go back to the thirteen colonies instead of the nasty Union where people in other States get to have a say in your affairs - I should have known.
to what degree it was satire is debatable
With respect, the strings between husbands and wives so that they can find their way back when drunk is a pretty enormous fucking clue!
I tried being polite but you are not only a fucking idiot but one that wants to throw away what George Washington gave you.
I suggest you read "Utopia" by Thomas More (it's online in English and not very long). One of the bits to show it was deliberate satire was that the laws were so simple that anybody could understand them yet completely fair and without loopholes. Thomas More was a lawyer by trade. So seen as a ridiculous joke in 1516 - is life so much more simple now that it's no longer ridiculous? While some simplification is a good idea I don't think we can dumb it down enough to get rid of the lawyers without risking some grave injustices (see King John and why we ended up with Magna Carta to rein him in for example).
Travelling down that road can mean that you have to be a member of lobby group X before your devices are allowed, and that group will have a cost of entry designed to squeeze out linux users, bsd users, radio hobby types and anyone else who doe not have a commercial stake. See the broadcasting sector for examples.
I suppose I'm lucky to have an ISP that not only is happy for clients to bring their own modem but had docs for how to setup close to a dozen popular models.
There are several examples of people writing that, even if they don't think that on an earlier article here about a waste storage incident at Los Alamos. http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/01/11/1820225/nuclear-waste-accident-costs-los-alamos-contractor-57-million eg."The reason we have a nuclear waste issue is because of the reprocessing ban that Jimmy Carter put in place"
A vast number of others are on the Fukishima articles - especially the ones on the day proclaiming success before the list of problems became clear (eg. the secondary problems from fuel storage on site).
Wrong on all counts. I started working as a contractor after I had spent a few years building up skills, contacts and a bank account. I stopped working as a contractor a few years later when a client wanted me full time and the tax hassles meant it made more sense to be an employee instead.
Only if your business has a very short term view and a lot of legal hassles. How do you cope with a project that spans a decade? Oh that's right, you don't!
Especially interesting since there's a lot of Lithium in salt lakes that can be scooped up with a bulldozer in California and Bolivia. I've been following the Indian ideas on accelerated Thorium but had no idea that Lithium could also fit in the concept.
Waste disposal is still, the last I heard, an unsolved problem
I mentioned Synroc above so if you had read the entire post before replying you would have heard otherwise. Not ideal and it doesn't cover everything but a solution of sorts.
Ssh, the cargo-cult fanboys want to pretend there isn't any and that it can all be fuel, so instead of starting a fight let's humour them so they will at least start to consider costs for once instead of pretending it's all "too cheap to meter". Maybe they will learn something and be informed about the topic instead of thinking of it as magic perfected in 1970. However if you want an answer, for the very active waste there is Synroc - bit of a guess as to how much it can be scaled up to drop costs but at least it (finally) exists. The less active stuff is a lot easier to handle and store, which is just as well because it makes up the majority of the volume of nuclear waste
Here is part of why you as a complete outsider think there is a problem. It's about journalism jumping on weird shit instead of a problem with how science is run: http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=49...
Or set policy and do it in the open. Sometimes arbitrary rules get in the way of everyone apart from the person that has set them without thinking of the consequences.
So here's another one - don't work for a place large enough to have a legal department that can get you sacked:) I'm in the resource exploration sector, and things can move slooowly. Ten year old emails do get dragged out at times when the client wants to have a bit more done on a project. Data tapes from the 1970s even get dragged out of storage at times when the client has lost the original. So sometimes business convenience outweighs the risk of negative outcomes from legal discovery.
That's an interesting answer kids, pretend to be self-reliant by sponging off others and start a business when you have little experience on how to do anything involved with it. Why would we want the kids to have their attitude adjusted to that? A different answer is to get some skills together so you have something to sell first. If you can't keep it in your pants long enough to get that far before having kids then why do you think you have enough self discipline to run your own business anyway? This "get your attitude adjusted" shit is condescending and hilarious in this suggestion where an "entrepreneurial type" is supposed to sponge off their parents. It sounds more childish than entrepreneurial to me.
I don't play office politics, but I do document everything
Now that's a good tip, a related one is you are responsible for stuff that other people use make sure you have excellent logging/records/snapshots/real backups/etc. There really are "dog ate my homework" people out there that will try to get you sacked for losing emails/documents/etc that never existed as a distraction from them not doing the work in the first place. It won't cure them but you will no longer be the path of least resistance so they'll try their tricks out on others instead.
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Besides, we already have hobby lathes cheaper than 3D printers that can do high quality rifled barrels. It may take a full weekend to learn how to do it, but probably nowhere near that for many.
It's almost as if people are pushing for 3D printer control, but I'd say the reality is attention seeking idiots looking for a 3D printing option that will offend and scare yet is not pornographic so can make it onto the TV news.
Not being able to postpone updates renders the machine no longer viable as a games machine which is what quite a few of those Win7 Home installs are used for. Try setting automatic updates and running Skyrim or some other full screen game and you will see what I mean - unexpected reboots without time to save a game are very annoying.
However, if Win10 doesn't have a win7 style start menu (where users can eventually find the program they know is on the system but can't remember the name of) we are going to be in for a lot more annoyance even if it's just helping out relatives. MS have had menu structures for so long that people have remembered the path to launch something instead of the name, and removing that to push people back to a command line style search is a huge game changer. Helping people find stuff in Win8 is already a massive time sink and hardly anyone uses it.
Really? I was definitely going on Boy Scout trips to the rifle range at that age - learning that guns are a dangerous but useful tool and not something to leave loaded in the shopping cart for a 4 year old to fire like the 2nd amendment idiots.
Maybe I'm too cynical but that's how I'd see it going - a sensible minimum standard hijacked and turned into a barrier to new players entering the market with collatoral damage of linux, freebsd etc. Such a thing could be avoided if the general public can get in on the rule drafting process.
You may not believe it but I do because I listened to a seminar by a guy that had been testing it for a few years, and that was in 1987!
The material hasn't changed since then but there have been improvements on how to produce it. Amazing results on a low budget and a good example showing that the main players in the nuclear lobby want to pretend that there is no waste problem and really don't want to do any research at all.
Leaching is a problem as identified in the early 1960s - get the glass encapsulated material wet and stuff starts to get out over time (via water in the grain boundaries) - hence Synroc which uses encorporation with chemical bonds, making the radioactive compounds insoluble in water, instead of wrapping untreated waste up (encapsulation) in glassy phases. The radioactive material is mixed in quantities selected so that heat will not be a problem. If it is then the mix is wrong.
It's a waste management solution for the active stuff you cannot reprocess. Reprocessing is not magic that puts everything in a new fuel rod, it's instead about putting everything good enough to go into a new fuel rod and there is active material left over.
That would be nice but reprocessing isn't a way to eliminate waste it's just a way of getting something useful out of some of the waste.
There's a link on that page to sign up for free for a week or two.
Not much more than general knowledge is enough and working in a research environment is overkill to see you are just making stuff up as a complete outsider based on very poor information and bias. Go talk to a scientist or an engineer FFS before spreading so much bullshit.
With respect, the strings between husbands and wives so that they can find their way back when drunk is a pretty enormous fucking clue!
I tried being polite but you are not only a fucking idiot but one that wants to throw away what George Washington gave you.
I suggest you read "Utopia" by Thomas More (it's online in English and not very long). One of the bits to show it was deliberate satire was that the laws were so simple that anybody could understand them yet completely fair and without loopholes. Thomas More was a lawyer by trade.
So seen as a ridiculous joke in 1516 - is life so much more simple now that it's no longer ridiculous?
While some simplification is a good idea I don't think we can dumb it down enough to get rid of the lawyers without risking some grave injustices (see King John and why we ended up with Magna Carta to rein him in for example).
Travelling down that road can mean that you have to be a member of lobby group X before your devices are allowed, and that group will have a cost of entry designed to squeeze out linux users, bsd users, radio hobby types and anyone else who doe not have a commercial stake. See the broadcasting sector for examples.
I suppose I'm lucky to have an ISP that not only is happy for clients to bring their own modem but had docs for how to setup close to a dozen popular models.
There are several examples of people writing that, even if they don't think that on an earlier article here about a waste storage incident at Los Alamos.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/01/11/1820225/nuclear-waste-accident-costs-los-alamos-contractor-57-million
eg."The reason we have a nuclear waste issue is because of the reprocessing ban that Jimmy Carter put in place"
A vast number of others are on the Fukishima articles - especially the ones on the day proclaiming success before the list of problems became clear (eg. the secondary problems from fuel storage on site).
Wrong on all counts. I started working as a contractor after I had spent a few years building up skills, contacts and a bank account. I stopped working as a contractor a few years later when a client wanted me full time and the tax hassles meant it made more sense to be an employee instead.
Far less risky when you have some saleable skills.
Only if your business has a very short term view and a lot of legal hassles. How do you cope with a project that spans a decade? Oh that's right, you don't!
Especially interesting since there's a lot of Lithium in salt lakes that can be scooped up with a bulldozer in California and Bolivia.
I've been following the Indian ideas on accelerated Thorium but had no idea that Lithium could also fit in the concept.
I mentioned Synroc above so if you had read the entire post before replying you would have heard otherwise. Not ideal and it doesn't cover everything but a solution of sorts.
Perhaps they do not, but whether they believe it or not we get plenty of people on this site saying it.
Ssh, the cargo-cult fanboys want to pretend there isn't any and that it can all be fuel, so instead of starting a fight let's humour them so they will at least start to consider costs for once instead of pretending it's all "too cheap to meter". Maybe they will learn something and be informed about the topic instead of thinking of it as magic perfected in 1970.
However if you want an answer, for the very active waste there is Synroc - bit of a guess as to how much it can be scaled up to drop costs but at least it (finally) exists. The less active stuff is a lot easier to handle and store, which is just as well because it makes up the majority of the volume of nuclear waste
Here is part of why you as a complete outsider think there is a problem. It's about journalism jumping on weird shit instead of a problem with how science is run:
http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=49...
It depends on the material - technical documents are a bit different to marketing material so sometimes you are stuck with it.
If the advice has a chance of being wrong it's not a good situation to insist it's perfect.
Or set policy and do it in the open. Sometimes arbitrary rules get in the way of everyone apart from the person that has set them without thinking of the consequences.
So here's another one - don't work for a place large enough to have a legal department that can get you sacked :)
I'm in the resource exploration sector, and things can move slooowly. Ten year old emails do get dragged out at times when the client wants to have a bit more done on a project. Data tapes from the 1970s even get dragged out of storage at times when the client has lost the original. So sometimes business convenience outweighs the risk of negative outcomes from legal discovery.
That's an interesting answer kids, pretend to be self-reliant by sponging off others and start a business when you have little experience on how to do anything involved with it. Why would we want the kids to have their attitude adjusted to that?
A different answer is to get some skills together so you have something to sell first. If you can't keep it in your pants long enough to get that far before having kids then why do you think you have enough self discipline to run your own business anyway?
This "get your attitude adjusted" shit is condescending and hilarious in this suggestion where an "entrepreneurial type" is supposed to sponge off their parents. It sounds more childish than entrepreneurial to me.
Now that's a good tip, a related one is you are responsible for stuff that other people use make sure you have excellent logging/records/snapshots/real backups/etc. There really are "dog ate my homework" people out there that will try to get you sacked for losing emails/documents/etc that never existed as a distraction from them not doing the work in the first place. It won't cure them but you will no longer be the path of least resistance so they'll try their tricks out on others instead.