The growing computing power of modern PC's opens new uses. I work in the GIS sector and until a few years ago you needed very expensive Unix workstations. Cartographic datasets usually are very large (GBytes or even TBytes). Even the working sets usually are in the range of hundreds of MBytes. Thanks to the power of modern PC's you can put GIS functionality on the desktop of a secretary.
I have a similar system (VIA EPIA 5000) as an EMule client. The box is the size of a book and thanks to VNC it has no mouse, keyboard nor monitor. It's completely silent and also my electricity bill is smaller.
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Nearly all the plutonium available is created in reactors.
I agree with you. It would be cheaper to send the waste to the interstellar space than to the Sun.
The growing computing power of modern PC's opens new uses. I work in the GIS sector and until a few years ago you needed very expensive Unix workstations. Cartographic datasets usually are very large (GBytes or even TBytes). Even the working sets usually are in the range of hundreds of MBytes. Thanks to the power of modern PC's you can put GIS functionality on the desktop of a secretary.
I have a similar system (VIA EPIA 5000) as an EMule client. The box is the size of a book and thanks to VNC it has no mouse, keyboard nor monitor. It's completely silent and also my electricity bill is smaller.