It depends on how fast you raise the temperature. It's been shown (discussed/cited on/. recently), that if you raise the temperature slowly enough, the frog will indeed sit there and boil...
Oh yeah, the centrifuge thing. Yeah, right. Show me some numbers that that's even going to come close to covering decommissioning costs of the plant, not to mention the operating/decommissioning cost of the contaminated centrifuge...
When you scale up to large distances and high relative velocities, the concept of simultaneity goes out the window.
Our velocity is relative to M95 is a pretty small percentage of the speed of light, so in our inertial frame, it appears as if it happened ~40million (actually closer to 32 million) years ago.
If our relative velocity were much higher, it would appear to have happened either either more recently or longer ago (depending if we were moving toward or away from M95.)
In this case (talking only about observers on earth), the gunshot analogy is close enough. But it isn't universally applicable.
and enough money in investment accounts that I could have bought the house outright (inheritance from grandparents).
Fuck you, 1%.
So you could buy the house with cash, yet you deliberately decided to pay interest instead? You chose, say 3-4% interest or whatever it was over effectively 0% interest? Yeah, you definitely inherited your money.
Hey, AC, ever heard of a little thing called Opportunity Cost?
There is no such thing as radioactive waste - if it's radioactive, it can be used as fuel. We just need decent reactors which aren't crippled by ignorant public opinion or fear mongering.
Unless it seeps into the ground (see: German AVR).
Or is water contaminated by radioactive isotopes that's spilling all over the fucking place (see: Fukushima - no link necessary). Have you got a reactor design that economically burns cesium-contaminated water?
Putting your ridiculous statement about radioactive waste aside, I'd be willing to bet that the localized temperature inconsistencies that were seen in the AVR would likely be a problem with a TWR. Real physical systems are far different (read: more chaotic) than ideal systems.
Think it's just a simple engineering problem? How about this choice quote about the AVR:
There exists currently no dismantling method for the AVR vessel, but it is planned to develop some procedure during the next 60 years and to start with vessel dismantling at the end of the century. (emphasis mine)
As has been pointed out, there is no reason you couldnt use a new tool to get the output you want out of the database.
And when you get the infamous "Event Log Corrupt" message, you're screwed (happened on an Exchange system that I -really- need the application log for just the other day). If plain text gets corrupted, you can hopefully at least see something. If a binary format gets corrupted and you are depending on the bin->text converter, your mileage will vary considerably, generally in a bad way at the worst possible time.
Because addicts of certain substances don't just sit in their living room, they run out of money, and in order to avoid complete withdrawl, break into your grandma and granpappies house and bust thier skulls for the monthly check. You can deny it happens, but it does happen. I personally know a meth head who did this.
How often does this happen with legal drugs? Even highly addictive ones such as nicotine?
You mean just like the Democrats did when Republicans controlled the Whitehouse and Congress?
Not even close. For each of the last two congressional sessions, the Republicans have used the filibuster over twice as as many times as the last time that the Dems were the minority. From where I stand, it looks like those rascally Republicans are very much about subverting democracy.
Call me a hack if you want, I'm just looking at the raw numbers and calling it as I see it.
And 'sbin'. Is that for 'superusers', or is it for 'system'? People disagree.
My understanding is that it's for 'static'. As in statically-compiled binaries so if your libraries get hosed or you can only mount/, you have the tools you need to recover. Yes, this does reinforce your point, and I do agree with the rest of your post...
The GIMP was around for a -long- time before that movie came out.
In the -real- grown up world, the adults recognize that GIMP is an acronym for Gnu Image Manipulation Program and then move on without ever even thinking of ass-rape (or anything else).
IOW, maybe it's time for -you- to grow up and get over it...
Unless you think The News of the World and Phorm are government agencies, I'm not sure where this comes from.
From what I've seen, NOTW was -very- cozy with the government/police.
I have also seen the police on the street hassling the youths, so I can understand where some of their anger comes from.
None of this excuses the riots, it was straight-up crime, not protest.
However, the British government (especially the police) is looking more and more like it is rotten to the core, and that has not-so-bright implications for the future.
I'd like to hear about places that either prevented or blocked hacking from occurring JUST ONCE to show that the money spent on IT hasn't been completely wasted.
Not to feed the troll, but...
Places block/prevent hacking -constantly-, but that's not news.
If you spend some time monitoring the traffic on the outside interface of anywhere interesting, the number/variety of attempts are astounding.
Add to that the fact that the people on the inside (especially -not- the IT people) are incredibly apathetic, if not antagonistic toward security and it's really amazing that there aren't more successful attacks.
IOW, STFU, you don't know what you're talking about.
Just did a trip from Germany to Hawaii (via L.A.). Stuff was stolen from my suitcase. Interesting thing is that it was nothing of (monetary) value, it was a sealed, single-use Embolex injector (to help prevent DVT on the return flight). This was in checked luggage, prescribed by my doctor, no security threat at all. If I had tried to bring it in carry-on, I know they would have hassled me, so I put it in my checked luggage so that wouldn't happen and they took it anyway.
My business partner was on the same flight, and had all of the chocolate in his suitcase stolen.
Fucking TSA is a bunch of thieving idiots.
I have a feeling this is very much under-reported. Anyone else with recent experiences like this?
5,778,372: Remote retrieval and display management of electronic document with incorporated images
A browser remotely retrieves electronic documents from a remote computer network for viewing by a user. For enhancing responsiveness, the browser initially displays an electronic document without a background image so that the electronic document is initially displayed more quickly. The browser also prioritizes downloading of embedded images of the document by their incorporation in the currently visible portion of the electronic document. Further, the browser dynamically creates additional connections for retrieving resources incorporated into the electronic document from the remote computer network.
6,339,780: Loading status in a hypermedia browser having a limited available display area
Described herein is a portable computer having a limited display area. An Internet or other hypermedia browser executes on the portable computer to load and display content in a content viewing area. During times when the browser is loading content, the browser displays a temporary, animated graphic element over the content viewing area. The graphic element is removed after the content is loaded, allowing unobstructed viewing of the loaded content.
New varieties of child window controls are provided as system resources that application programs may exploit. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a dynamic link library (DLL) for implementing the new child window controls as part of an operating system. The new child window controls include a header bar control for providing header bars in application programs. The new controls also include a hot key control that allows a user to view and edit hot key combinations. The new controls further include a tab control for establishing tabs that differentiate amongst pages in user interfaces provided by application programs. An image list data type is defined and functions are provided for manipulating the image list data type. Image lists include multiple like-sized images that are stored efficiently in a single bitmap.
6,891,551: Selection handles in editing electronic documents
A computer system and method for highlighting and selecting elements of electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, a selection area identifies an initial selection of data, and one or more selection handles appear on the selection area to allow dynamic resizing of the selection area to select a larger or smaller portion of data or number of items.
6,957,233: Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering annotations for non-modifiable electronic content
The only reliable and economical sources of energy for general baseload power generation not tied to a specific and limited locale will be transportable materials containing potential energy that can be made to release that energy at will. Currently, that means combustible materials or fissile materials.
Not clear at all that fissile materials are an economical source of energy. I've read that the cost of dealing with this fissile disaster (so far) is about 300 billion dollars. That's some -huge- liability...
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Mammoths weren't dinosaurs, they were mammals.
It depends on how fast you raise the temperature. It's been shown (discussed/cited on /. recently), that if you raise the temperature slowly enough, the frog will indeed sit there and boil...
According to some, it's easy to deal with. Just grind it up, extract the valuable radioisotopes, and Bob's your uncle!
Oh yeah, the centrifuge thing. Yeah, right. Show me some numbers that that's even going to come close to covering decommissioning costs of the plant, not to mention the operating/decommissioning cost of the contaminated centrifuge...
You completely ignore the topic, nice!
What do you propose to deal with the ECONOMIC problem of de-commisioning?
When you scale up to large distances and high relative velocities, the concept of simultaneity goes out the window.
Our velocity is relative to M95 is a pretty small percentage of the speed of light, so in our inertial frame, it appears as if it happened ~40million (actually closer to 32 million) years ago.
If our relative velocity were much higher, it would appear to have happened either either more recently or longer ago (depending if we were moving toward or away from M95.)
In this case (talking only about observers on earth), the gunshot analogy is close enough. But it isn't universally applicable.
and enough money in investment accounts that I could have bought the house outright (inheritance from grandparents).
Fuck you, 1%.
So you could buy the house with cash, yet you deliberately decided to pay interest instead? You chose, say 3-4% interest or whatever it was over effectively 0% interest? Yeah, you definitely inherited your money.
Hey, AC, ever heard of a little thing called Opportunity Cost?
Stop making sense!
There is no such thing as radioactive waste - if it's radioactive, it can be used as fuel. We just need decent reactors which aren't crippled by ignorant public opinion or fear mongering.
Unless it seeps into the ground (see: German AVR).
Or is water contaminated by radioactive isotopes that's spilling all over the fucking place (see: Fukushima - no link necessary). Have you got a reactor design that economically burns cesium-contaminated water?
Putting your ridiculous statement about radioactive waste aside, I'd be willing to bet that the localized temperature inconsistencies that were seen in the AVR would likely be a problem with a TWR. Real physical systems are far different (read: more chaotic) than ideal systems.
Think it's just a simple engineering problem? How about this choice quote about the AVR:
There exists currently no dismantling method for the AVR vessel, but it is planned to develop some procedure during the next 60 years and to start with vessel dismantling at the end of the century. (emphasis mine)
As has been pointed out, there is no reason you couldnt use a new tool to get the output you want out of the database.
And when you get the infamous "Event Log Corrupt" message, you're screwed (happened on an Exchange system that I -really- need the application log for just the other day). If plain text gets corrupted, you can hopefully at least see something. If a binary format gets corrupted and you are depending on the bin->text converter, your mileage will vary considerably, generally in a bad way at the worst possible time.
Karma Whore!
Because addicts of certain substances don't just sit in their living room, they run out of money, and in order to avoid complete withdrawl, break into your grandma and granpappies house and bust thier skulls for the monthly check. You can deny it happens, but it does happen. I personally know a meth head who did this.
How often does this happen with legal drugs? Even highly addictive ones such as nicotine?
All the time. See: Oxycodone
You mean just like the Democrats did when Republicans controlled the Whitehouse and Congress?
Not even close. For each of the last two congressional sessions, the Republicans have used the filibuster over twice as as many times as the last time that the Dems were the minority. From where I stand, it looks like those rascally Republicans are very much about subverting democracy.
Call me a hack if you want, I'm just looking at the raw numbers and calling it as I see it.
News flash, the Senate Republictards decided that the filibuster would be a great way to subvert democracy.
And 'sbin'. Is that for 'superusers', or is it for 'system'? People disagree.
My understanding is that it's for 'static'. As in statically-compiled binaries so if your libraries get hosed or you can only mount /, you have the tools you need to recover. Yes, this does reinforce your point, and I do agree with the rest of your post...
In your opinion, what is it going to take to get the Internet switched over to IPV6?
The GIMP was around for a -long- time before that movie came out.
In the -real- grown up world, the adults recognize that GIMP is an acronym for Gnu Image Manipulation Program and then move on without ever even thinking of ass-rape (or anything else).
IOW, maybe it's time for -you- to grow up and get over it...
Unless you think The News of the World and Phorm are government agencies, I'm not sure where this comes from.
From what I've seen, NOTW was -very- cozy with the government/police.
I have also seen the police on the street hassling the youths, so I can understand where some of their anger comes from.
None of this excuses the riots, it was straight-up crime, not protest.
However, the British government (especially the police) is looking more and more like it is rotten to the core, and that has not-so-bright implications for the future.
I'd like to hear about places that either prevented or blocked hacking from occurring JUST ONCE to show that the money spent on IT hasn't been completely wasted.
Not to feed the troll, but...
Places block/prevent hacking -constantly-, but that's not news.
If you spend some time monitoring the traffic on the outside interface of anywhere interesting, the number/variety of attempts are astounding.
Add to that the fact that the people on the inside (especially -not- the IT people) are incredibly apathetic, if not antagonistic toward security and it's really amazing that there aren't more successful attacks.
IOW, STFU, you don't know what you're talking about.
Just did a trip from Germany to Hawaii (via L.A.). Stuff was stolen from my suitcase. Interesting thing is that it was nothing of (monetary) value, it was a sealed, single-use Embolex injector (to help prevent DVT on the return flight). This was in checked luggage, prescribed by my doctor, no security threat at all. If I had tried to bring it in carry-on, I know they would have hassled me, so I put it in my checked luggage so that wouldn't happen and they took it anyway.
My business partner was on the same flight, and had all of the chocolate in his suitcase stolen.
Fucking TSA is a bunch of thieving idiots.
I have a feeling this is very much under-reported. Anyone else with recent experiences like this?
The ones listed in the B&N response:
5,778,372: Remote retrieval and display management of electronic document with incorporated images
A browser remotely retrieves electronic documents from a remote computer network for viewing by a user. For enhancing responsiveness, the browser initially displays an electronic document without a background image so that the electronic document is initially displayed more quickly. The browser also prioritizes downloading of embedded images of the document by their incorporation in the currently visible portion of the electronic document. Further, the browser dynamically creates additional connections for retrieving resources incorporated into the electronic document from the remote computer network.
6,339,780: Loading status in a hypermedia browser having a limited available display area
Described herein is a portable computer having a limited display area. An Internet or other hypermedia browser executes on the portable computer to load and display content in a content viewing area. During times when the browser is loading content, the browser displays a temporary, animated graphic element over the content viewing area. The graphic element is removed after the content is loaded, allowing unobstructed viewing of the loaded content.
5,889,522: System provided child window controls
New varieties of child window controls are provided as system resources that application programs may exploit. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a dynamic link library (DLL) for implementing the new child window controls as part of an operating system. The new child window controls include a header bar control for providing header bars in application programs. The new controls also include a hot key control that allows a user to view and edit hot key combinations. The new controls further include a tab control for establishing tabs that differentiate amongst pages in user interfaces provided by application programs. An image list data type is defined and functions are provided for manipulating the image list data type. Image lists include multiple like-sized images that are stored efficiently in a single bitmap.
6,891,551: Selection handles in editing electronic documents
A computer system and method for highlighting and selecting elements of electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, a selection area identifies an initial selection of data, and one or more selection handles appear on the selection area to allow dynamic resizing of the selection area to select a larger or smaller portion of data or number of items.
6,957,233: Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering annotations for non-modifiable electronic content
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Try again, here. Beware of the wrath of the hams...
The only reliable and economical sources of energy for general baseload power generation not tied to a specific and limited locale will be transportable materials containing potential energy that can be made to release that energy at will. Currently, that means combustible materials or fissile materials.
Not clear at all that fissile materials are an economical source of energy. I've read that the cost of dealing with this fissile disaster (so far) is about 300 billion dollars. That's some -huge- liability...
The only purpose the GPL has is to control derivative works.
No, the purpose of the GPL is to control the distribution of derivative works.
Why were you going into bars and restaurants where people smoked, if you found it so unpleasant?
Chicks.