Even if you were to build a bigass tower for collected solar power the distances are so great the transmission losses
That's what HVDC is for, but of course you need a shitload of copper to build very long transmission lines. That's the main reason why it's unlikely to see electricity from a geothermal hotspot at the corner of NSW, QLD and SA. The main hope for that project was getting electricity to an expanded Olympic Dam mine in SA, but that's not happening any time soon.
Actually it isn't. Look up what free neutrons do when they hit stuff. Most of the volume of nuclear waste is assorted containers, machinery etc that has been in close proximity to the really active stuff and is merely slightly dangerous garbage. That's why you need a lot of space to store it, and conventional garbage dump procedures require too much human proximity to be able to store such slightly active stuff. That stuff effectively requires a high-tech robotic garbage dump with the sort of barriers to groundwater contamination we already see around large crude oil storage tanks - not a huge deal for most of the volume. For better or worse only a small proportion is very active, and some (not all) can be reprocessed by one of two methods in use (which actually generates a larger volume of low level waste - it's a fuel recycling thing and not waste reduction), maybe melted in some sort of future liquid metal reactor to save the vast effort of reprocessing, or stored sensibly with something like Synroc (or slightly less sensibly with vitrification which has leaching problems when exposed to water).
To give Bob Hawke credit, he actually did put some money towards research into nuclear waste management and Synroc was developed almost to completion on his watch. In the decades since then it's managed to scrape together just enough to be completed, which showed in hindsight that we could have had it by 2000 with far less than a million in cash put towards it. It's now in use in a few places around the world and is chemically stable. It should be the nuclear fanboy's dream and has the benefit of being real, but since they like to pretend nuclear waste doesn't exist they have never heard of it.
It's mostly the green tree snakes (no venom), carpet pythons (their diet tops out at small cat size) and very rarely a venomous black snake in urban areas. Urban in Australia means sprawling green leafy suburbs. Sydney is full of funnelweb spiders which worried me when I lived there for a while. Now I just have to worry about the redback spider which appears to be an import (the money is on South America) that mostly lives in urban areas.
You assume that you know how schools would deliver better results
People in education in every country on the planet know what I have written but shortcuts deliver career opportunities for cronies that need to be rewarded.
It's not about a new insight. It's about ignoring an old one and having predictable poor results.
The way to improve schools is to let many schools try many different things, and let parents decide for themselves
Improvement by ignorant brownian motion instead of getting help from domain experience? Please have at least some respect for the intelligence of people reading what you are writing, and please identify your attempts at humour clearly if it was at attempt at a joke.
It's amazement that it is happening so much instead of amazement that it is happening at all. That is the difference between an observer getting a better quantitative idea and a "moron".
Add a pile of shortcuts and fuckups to the effect of that tsunami and you've got the real story. Add in a lot of misinformation and overt covering up to that chain of failures and you've got the second story about why little is taken on trust in Japan with that issue now.
Did you even read what I wrote? The body that admisters the entire thing is mostly irrelevant if you have a pointy haired boss with an MBA in shouting in charge at the school level instead of someone with teaching experience.
Do I really have to spell things out as if it is for a five year old and write "not for the army, navy, airforce or spooks" instead of "civilian"? The aboce sig is especially funny in this context.
From how the banks treat it they do not appear to employ a single one of those smart people. Civilian nuclear is going nowhere until we have something small enough that it doesn't need a government to pour billions into it.
No it's real as any windfall. The delusion is thinking it is always going to be easy even in the face of the reality of being driven to more difficult sources like shale and oil reserves in difficult to reach places. There's people that think the easy windfalls are infinite.
There are no "corporate-style administrators" in public schools, there are only government administrators
I think that's trying to be too precise about the meaning and missing the broader point. They sort of are "corporate-style administrators" in terms of being managers of the sort you would want to run a business (or goverment owned warehouse or whatever) instead of former or current teachers with both mananagement skills and an ability to tell the teachers HOW to teach. Other countries do it the second way and it works. The USA used to do it the second way and it worked. Quality assurance is nice in a factory setting but a poor substitude for child psychology in a school setting. Teacher training and years of experience was seen as too much of a cost of entry when the powerful wanted to parachute their friends into cushy jobs so you ended up with school administrators without a clue about schools. Before that trend you either needed the capital to found a school yourself or spend years earning respect in the teaching profession before running a school.
Only one more mission could have pushed it into a high enough orbit to keep it going as long as Mir did. From then it would have been reachable without a full Saturn V. However the appearance of saving money by doing nothing and throwing away such a huge sunk cost and a pile of NASA expertise by letting people go away over time was seen to be more politically viable than keeping it going. IMHO the decision to give up on Skylab and try for a cheap "space truck" was part of a decision to hand the baton of space manned space travel over to the USSR. It was a symptom of a failure of the political will. I think it's what we have to point to when people ask "why do we have to pay Russia for tickets to the ISS?".
If you go to Washington or Florida you can see the hardware that was available at the time to push it into a more stable orbit if they had been fuelled up and the missions not been cancelled.
The American public had already shown its propensity for being uninterested in the space program
If you had even seen newspaper clippings from the time you would not be under such a misapprehension.
That does not refute my statement and I do not know why you bothered to reply in such a way to my very clear example. He obviously gained more benefit from that assisted study than he did with his earlier self study.
Clipboard? It's a framebuffer with a compositor on top. Clipboards are a client problem (as are many other things). Now do you get why the "X sux" stuff from Wayland fanboys is annoying? Wayland is designed to be something different to X with different goals. Those of us that "want to run software from 1996" are made fun of in Wayland presentations, which would be fine if they were not also telling us to stop using X.
Use an older firefox or something else without a recent gtk+.
That does not sound like a real example
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Basically all that. Even over GigE simple things like gvim are a dog.
To me that sounds like complete and utter bullshit unless gvim is now seriously broken. In my workplace complex interactive geophysical packages with a lot of graphical information are used remotely over X by dozens of people at once to (in some cases) substandard MS Windows implementations of X without running like a dog - even over wireless to laptops, so how is your gvim over GigE example even possible unless somethign else is going on? It appears to fail the reality test. Did you make it up or was the machine you were running it on under very heavy load at the time so it would be slow in all cases? If you made it up - why - what is motivating you to make such things up about what you see as opposition instead of praising what you see as good in Wayland? This X sux rubbish that fails the reality test is annoying and doesn't do Wayland any good while Wayland is still making progress.
Apparently something good enough to be a bullet point on that was done last year but the fanboys don't know any details other than an announcement they point to. Maybe a Wayland developer will comment on one of these Wayland stories some day apart from the fanboys and we'll get some real information instead of links to a video of a half finished powerpoint presentation with no Wayland screenshots.
The cases where people have argued such a thing are the strawman you've taken up on as streaming bitmaps, which is not always (in fact very rarely outside of gnome3) the case. So there's equivalent performance (streaming bitmaps the same speed in both) or better when you have a situation where one can do something other than just stream bitmaps. Of course every time this gets mentioned we get the "only dinosaurs want remote access/shaped windows/whatever feature of X does not apply on phones - then the distraction - hey look how slow gedit starts on X so obviously X is crap and not gedit" so this discussion usually ends up at a dead end. We've already got VNC and Wayland is not planning anything better remotely so we may as well focus on what it gives us as a local framebuffer, then screenscrape as best as we can later. With a dumb framebuffer the plan is to trade complexity and flexibility for speed.
If you want an assembly line to produce broken people for their relatives support forever then you have a dehumanising prison, but that's a very Soviet way of doing things. Other places have something a bit like outside society so that when the prisoners are eventually released they will be more than just a burden to everyone around them.
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That's what HVDC is for, but of course you need a shitload of copper to build very long transmission lines. That's the main reason why it's unlikely to see electricity from a geothermal hotspot at the corner of NSW, QLD and SA. The main hope for that project was getting electricity to an expanded Olympic Dam mine in SA, but that's not happening any time soon.
Actually it isn't. Look up what free neutrons do when they hit stuff. Most of the volume of nuclear waste is assorted containers, machinery etc that has been in close proximity to the really active stuff and is merely slightly dangerous garbage. That's why you need a lot of space to store it, and conventional garbage dump procedures require too much human proximity to be able to store such slightly active stuff. That stuff effectively requires a high-tech robotic garbage dump with the sort of barriers to groundwater contamination we already see around large crude oil storage tanks - not a huge deal for most of the volume.
For better or worse only a small proportion is very active, and some (not all) can be reprocessed by one of two methods in use (which actually generates a larger volume of low level waste - it's a fuel recycling thing and not waste reduction), maybe melted in some sort of future liquid metal reactor to save the vast effort of reprocessing, or stored sensibly with something like Synroc (or slightly less sensibly with vitrification which has leaching problems when exposed to water).
To give Bob Hawke credit, he actually did put some money towards research into nuclear waste management and Synroc was developed almost to completion on his watch. In the decades since then it's managed to scrape together just enough to be completed, which showed in hindsight that we could have had it by 2000 with far less than a million in cash put towards it. It's now in use in a few places around the world and is chemically stable. It should be the nuclear fanboy's dream and has the benefit of being real, but since they like to pretend nuclear waste doesn't exist they have never heard of it.
It's mostly the green tree snakes (no venom), carpet pythons (their diet tops out at small cat size) and very rarely a venomous black snake in urban areas. Urban in Australia means sprawling green leafy suburbs. Sydney is full of funnelweb spiders which worried me when I lived there for a while. Now I just have to worry about the redback spider which appears to be an import (the money is on South America) that mostly lives in urban areas.
We've even got a poisonous mammal - the platypus.
People in education in every country on the planet know what I have written but shortcuts deliver career opportunities for cronies that need to be rewarded.
It's not about a new insight. It's about ignoring an old one and having predictable poor results.
Improvement by ignorant brownian motion instead of getting help from domain experience? Please have at least some respect for the intelligence of people reading what you are writing, and please identify your attempts at humour clearly if it was at attempt at a joke.
It's amazement that it is happening so much instead of amazement that it is happening at all. That is the difference between an observer getting a better quantitative idea and a "moron".
Add a pile of shortcuts and fuckups to the effect of that tsunami and you've got the real story. Add in a lot of misinformation and overt covering up to that chain of failures and you've got the second story about why little is taken on trust in Japan with that issue now.
Did you even read what I wrote? The body that admisters the entire thing is mostly irrelevant if you have a pointy haired boss with an MBA in shouting in charge at the school level instead of someone with teaching experience.
Do I really have to spell things out as if it is for a five year old and write "not for the army, navy, airforce or spooks" instead of "civilian"?
The aboce sig is especially funny in this context.
From how the banks treat it they do not appear to employ a single one of those smart people.
Civilian nuclear is going nowhere until we have something small enough that it doesn't need a government to pour billions into it.
No it's real as any windfall. The delusion is thinking it is always going to be easy even in the face of the reality of being driven to more difficult sources like shale and oil reserves in difficult to reach places. There's people that think the easy windfalls are infinite.
I think that's trying to be too precise about the meaning and missing the broader point. They sort of are "corporate-style administrators" in terms of being managers of the sort you would want to run a business (or goverment owned warehouse or whatever) instead of former or current teachers with both mananagement skills and an ability to tell the teachers HOW to teach. Other countries do it the second way and it works. The USA used to do it the second way and it worked. Quality assurance is nice in a factory setting but a poor substitude for child psychology in a school setting.
Teacher training and years of experience was seen as too much of a cost of entry when the powerful wanted to parachute their friends into cushy jobs so you ended up with school administrators without a clue about schools. Before that trend you either needed the capital to found a school yourself or spend years earning respect in the teaching profession before running a school.
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Only one more mission could have pushed it into a high enough orbit to keep it going as long as Mir did. From then it would have been reachable without a full Saturn V. However the appearance of saving money by doing nothing and throwing away such a huge sunk cost and a pile of NASA expertise by letting people go away over time was seen to be more politically viable than keeping it going. IMHO the decision to give up on Skylab and try for a cheap "space truck" was part of a decision to hand the baton of space manned space travel over to the USSR. It was a symptom of a failure of the political will. I think it's what we have to point to when people ask "why do we have to pay Russia for tickets to the ISS?".
For example that's the way E17 does it.
If you had even seen newspaper clippings from the time you would not be under such a misapprehension.
That does not refute my statement and I do not know why you bothered to reply in such a way to my very clear example. He obviously gained more benefit from that assisted study than he did with his earlier self study.
Clipboard? It's a framebuffer with a compositor on top. Clipboards are a client problem (as are many other things).
Now do you get why the "X sux" stuff from Wayland fanboys is annoying? Wayland is designed to be something different to X with different goals. Those of us that "want to run software from 1996" are made fun of in Wayland presentations, which would be fine if they were not also telling us to stop using X.
Use an older firefox or something else without a recent gtk+.
To me that sounds like complete and utter bullshit unless gvim is now seriously broken. In my workplace complex interactive geophysical packages with a lot of graphical information are used remotely over X by dozens of people at once to (in some cases) substandard MS Windows implementations of X without running like a dog - even over wireless to laptops, so how is your gvim over GigE example even possible unless somethign else is going on? It appears to fail the reality test. Did you make it up or was the machine you were running it on under very heavy load at the time so it would be slow in all cases? If you made it up - why - what is motivating you to make such things up about what you see as opposition instead of praising what you see as good in Wayland? This X sux rubbish that fails the reality test is annoying and doesn't do Wayland any good while Wayland is still making progress.
"Modern toolkit" is only portions of the most recent bits of gtk+. The rest doesn't do anything so stupid.
Apparently something good enough to be a bullet point on that was done last year but the fanboys don't know any details other than an announcement they point to. Maybe a Wayland developer will comment on one of these Wayland stories some day apart from the fanboys and we'll get some real information instead of links to a video of a half finished powerpoint presentation with no Wayland screenshots.
The cases where people have argued such a thing are the strawman you've taken up on as streaming bitmaps, which is not always (in fact very rarely outside of gnome3) the case. So there's equivalent performance (streaming bitmaps the same speed in both) or better when you have a situation where one can do something other than just stream bitmaps. Of course every time this gets mentioned we get the "only dinosaurs want remote access/shaped windows/whatever feature of X does not apply on phones - then the distraction - hey look how slow gedit starts on X so obviously X is crap and not gedit" so this discussion usually ends up at a dead end.
We've already got VNC and Wayland is not planning anything better remotely so we may as well focus on what it gives us as a local framebuffer, then screenscrape as best as we can later. With a dumb framebuffer the plan is to trade complexity and flexibility for speed.
That's firewalling and you can get that at the router whether you have NAT or not - it has nothing to do with NAT.
If you want an assembly line to produce broken people for their relatives support forever then you have a dehumanising prison, but that's a very Soviet way of doing things. Other places have something a bit like outside society so that when the prisoners are eventually released they will be more than just a burden to everyone around them.