Are you seriously saying that you turn to the nuclear industry mouthpiece for all your unbiased news? Just have a look at the membership list of the World Nuclear Association. This is an association made up of companies who profit from the from the continued use of nuclear energy.
And yet they've had better reporting than any major US news outlet.
This is the basis of all the conflicting polls that come out before elections. Most people are influenced by what they think everyone else thinks. The more you can make people believe everyone else thinks something, the more people you will get to vote that way.
whaddya gonna do. as long as 'lobby' concept is around, and news generation and distribution stays corporate, these kind of stuff will happen. just prevent interested industries profiting, screw the rest...
It's nothing so sinister. Only a small percentage of people actually understand enough about ionizing radiation to understand what's going on. Clearly the news readers don't, as they repeat whatever the last (maybe or maybe not) expert told them. And it's not clear why people all around the world need to care. In the end, unless the reactors get out of control it's a local problem.
The sophistication has been gradually increasing. I've been reading articles on these things for about five years now. Even the earlier boats the article derides as "just cigarette boats encased in wood and fiberglass" were being incorporated with exhaust cooling systems (to lower the IR signature), more powerful engines, and state-of-the-art navigation equipment.
Basic submarine technology is conceptually simple and over 100 years old - it stands to reason they would eventually build a genuine submersible. Hell, you can get the basic design for WW II submarines on the internet. I doubt these things are very quiet, acoustically, and I'd be shocked if they're safe (sort of) below more than a few meters.
The DEA has been blaming laid-off commercial sub engineers, or maybe military designers from Eastern Europe or Russia or even China. I sure don't see anything that would take that kind of sophistication. Money and determination could get you there in ten years without much engineering knowledge.
Oh, bull crap. There were no private prisons when drugs were made illegal. Up until the early 20th century you could buy cocaine in the local drug store.
Drugs are illegal as a result of the same nanny-state impulse that brought us seat belt laws and Social Security. Some people can't resist the urge to run your life, and they'll enlist the government to do it.
I agree as well. When I asked prospective tablet buyers why they wanted one I would always get answers like "I'm going to put recipes on it and keep it in the kitchen".
Only a handful of my friends who bought one are still using it, and those that are don't use it very often. They use it almost exclusively for reading ebooks, a task for which an ebook reader is far better suited.
I'm with you. It's looks like more of a negotiating tactic than a serious strategy. Leaks and press releases are cheap ways of unsettling your negotiation partners. To actually ditch Android at this point would be suicidal.
What does LimeWire have to trade? The only thing I can come up with is user information, traffic logs - that kind of thing. I'm thinking if I were ever a LimeWire user I'd be a little nervous right now.
There's nothing wrong with java for this kind of system. I run a system written in java that handles tens of thousands of events per second in real time. Works like a charm. Real time systems are a bit harder to design, and failure modes have to be thought through more carefully, but that's independent of your choice of language. You have to think about whether or not you can tolerate GC pauses, but we get pauses typically on the order of 100ms, which is probably just fine for an application like the one in the article. Especially if the system they're replacing is based on "paper strips and flight names".
You're right about j2ee though. I have enough experience with j2ee I can't imagine where I would voluntarily use it.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it...
More specifically jet technologies like the WS-10, an engine which is a nut-for-bolt ripoff of the Russian AL-31.
By now Chinese companies are famous for making partnerships with foreign firms and then burning their partners once they think they can get away with it. Whoever made this decision at GE is an idiot.
There's that, but also the steam catapults have a longer cycle time. In theory the linear motors will be able to launch aircraft as fast as they can be put into position. Seems like that would be a pretty big deal if you had hostiles inbound.
You're probably right, but life being what it is the very first time this thing is actually used they're gonna nail the swimmer right between the eyes.
"heavily subsidized the industry"? No. There are some companies, in some places that were subsidized in an effort to bring about more universal service. Where I live the cable companies have managed to provide service to everyone on their own dime. They use public rights of way, but they provide what they were asked to provide when they laid the cables - cable television.
I've been buying a lot of sub-$5 indie games lately. The vast majority are crap, but occasionally I hit one that's more fun than the average $50 big studio game. It only has to happen one time in ten to be worth it.
"Strong" is a relative term. France has one tiny (37,000 ton) aircraft carrier which doesn't have the support it would need to survive in a shooting war. They were going to build a second but ran out of money. Granted, the nuclear carrier club is pretty small, but let's not get carried away here.
Also, Sarkozy is a windbag. Listen to everything he says, not just the things you like.
But when the squabbling countries and their bureaucracies have been addressed we come to the real problem, which is these plants are going to be astronomically expensive.
There are about 30 Tokamak fusion reactors in the world today. All of them produce fusion. None of them produce more power than they require to run. Why do the ITER managers believe theirs will be different?
There are huge engineering economies of scale in tokomaks. The "surface" of the magnetic field you generate is scaling at r and the actual plasma volume is scaling at r-sqared. It's the same reason we can't make a small rigid airship fly today but Count Zeppelin could make a large one fly more than a century ago using a copper alloy, cow stomachs, and canvas. Even with today's technology you could build a tokomak with energy output if you were willing to build it big enough.
I have no doubt they will be able to build this thing and produce more energy than it requires. The big question is whether or not this technology will ever be commercially viable. In the absence of some out-of-the-blue breakthrough I'm guessing the answer is probably "no". Solar has already reached a price point fusion will probably never match given the capital costs involved.
That's true. However, as I understand it the reason they were able to crack it so easily was the Xing player stored its keys in plaintext in violation of its CSS license. I didn't mean to imply that every breach was malicious.
Assuming this is real, I'm curious to know exactly where it came from. When I worked with crypto stuff they drilled into our heads the notion that, yes, the data can be decrypted by cleverness or brute force, but almost all actual cases of security breach involved people and not algorithms.
If you ever wondered why drug companies would rather work on yet another allergy medication instead of vaccines with a much bigger potential to help people, well, look no further.
This article unpacks the history of MPEG LA and then suggests the obvious — it's all because of WebM — and the worrying — maybe it's preparing the ground for opening a third front in the patent war against Google."
Well, I suppose if anyone has the money to fight a three-front patent war it's Google.
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And yet they've had better reporting than any major US news outlet.
This is the basis of all the conflicting polls that come out before elections. Most people are influenced by what they think everyone else thinks. The more you can make people believe everyone else thinks something, the more people you will get to vote that way.
It's nothing so sinister. Only a small percentage of people actually understand enough about ionizing radiation to understand what's going on. Clearly the news readers don't, as they repeat whatever the last (maybe or maybe not) expert told them. And it's not clear why people all around the world need to care. In the end, unless the reactors get out of control it's a local problem.
The sophistication has been gradually increasing. I've been reading articles on these things for about five years now. Even the earlier boats the article derides as "just cigarette boats encased in wood and fiberglass" were being incorporated with exhaust cooling systems (to lower the IR signature), more powerful engines, and state-of-the-art navigation equipment.
Basic submarine technology is conceptually simple and over 100 years old - it stands to reason they would eventually build a genuine submersible. Hell, you can get the basic design for WW II submarines on the internet. I doubt these things are very quiet, acoustically, and I'd be shocked if they're safe (sort of) below more than a few meters.
The DEA has been blaming laid-off commercial sub engineers, or maybe military designers from Eastern Europe or Russia or even China. I sure don't see anything that would take that kind of sophistication. Money and determination could get you there in ten years without much engineering knowledge.
Oh, bull crap. There were no private prisons when drugs were made illegal. Up until the early 20th century you could buy cocaine in the local drug store.
Drugs are illegal as a result of the same nanny-state impulse that brought us seat belt laws and Social Security. Some people can't resist the urge to run your life, and they'll enlist the government to do it.
I agree as well. When I asked prospective tablet buyers why they wanted one I would always get answers like "I'm going to put recipes on it and keep it in the kitchen".
Only a handful of my friends who bought one are still using it, and those that are don't use it very often. They use it almost exclusively for reading ebooks, a task for which an ebook reader is far better suited.
I'm with you. It's looks like more of a negotiating tactic than a serious strategy. Leaks and press releases are cheap ways of unsettling your negotiation partners. To actually ditch Android at this point would be suicidal.
What does LimeWire have to trade? The only thing I can come up with is user information, traffic logs - that kind of thing. I'm thinking if I were ever a LimeWire user I'd be a little nervous right now.
There's nothing wrong with java for this kind of system. I run a system written in java that handles tens of thousands of events per second in real time. Works like a charm. Real time systems are a bit harder to design, and failure modes have to be thought through more carefully, but that's independent of your choice of language. You have to think about whether or not you can tolerate GC pauses, but we get pauses typically on the order of 100ms, which is probably just fine for an application like the one in the article. Especially if the system they're replacing is based on "paper strips and flight names".
You're right about j2ee though. I have enough experience with j2ee I can't imagine where I would voluntarily use it.
Eh? I typed it in to the search box and it came up as the first result.
More specifically jet technologies like the WS-10, an engine which is a nut-for-bolt ripoff of the Russian AL-31.
By now Chinese companies are famous for making partnerships with foreign firms and then burning their partners once they think they can get away with it. Whoever made this decision at GE is an idiot.
There's that, but also the steam catapults have a longer cycle time. In theory the linear motors will be able to launch aircraft as fast as they can be put into position. Seems like that would be a pretty big deal if you had hostiles inbound.
You're probably right, but life being what it is the very first time this thing is actually used they're gonna nail the swimmer right between the eyes.
"heavily subsidized the industry"? No. There are some companies, in some places that were subsidized in an effort to bring about more universal service. Where I live the cable companies have managed to provide service to everyone on their own dime. They use public rights of way, but they provide what they were asked to provide when they laid the cables - cable television.
I've been buying a lot of sub-$5 indie games lately. The vast majority are crap, but occasionally I hit one that's more fun than the average $50 big studio game. It only has to happen one time in ten to be worth it.
Hahahahaha. That would be funny as hell.
Same as any other weapon. Not much, in peacetime. But they're invaluable once the shooting starts.
"Strong" is a relative term. France has one tiny (37,000 ton) aircraft carrier which doesn't have the support it would need to survive in a shooting war. They were going to build a second but ran out of money. Granted, the nuclear carrier club is pretty small, but let's not get carried away here.
Also, Sarkozy is a windbag. Listen to everything he says, not just the things you like.
But when the squabbling countries and their bureaucracies have been addressed we come to the real problem, which is these plants are going to be astronomically expensive.
There are huge engineering economies of scale in tokomaks. The "surface" of the magnetic field you generate is scaling at r and the actual plasma volume is scaling at r-sqared. It's the same reason we can't make a small rigid airship fly today but Count Zeppelin could make a large one fly more than a century ago using a copper alloy, cow stomachs, and canvas. Even with today's technology you could build a tokomak with energy output if you were willing to build it big enough.
I have no doubt they will be able to build this thing and produce more energy than it requires. The big question is whether or not this technology will ever be commercially viable. In the absence of some out-of-the-blue breakthrough I'm guessing the answer is probably "no". Solar has already reached a price point fusion will probably never match given the capital costs involved.
That's true. However, as I understand it the reason they were able to crack it so easily was the Xing player stored its keys in plaintext in violation of its CSS license. I didn't mean to imply that every breach was malicious.
Assuming this is real, I'm curious to know exactly where it came from. When I worked with crypto stuff they drilled into our heads the notion that, yes, the data can be decrypted by cleverness or brute force, but almost all actual cases of security breach involved people and not algorithms.
If you ever wondered why drug companies would rather work on yet another allergy medication instead of vaccines with a much bigger potential to help people, well, look no further.
Well, I suppose if anyone has the money to fight a three-front patent war it's Google.
No, if it was capitalism Google would pay something reasonable. This is some kind of commie corporatism.