Exactly!, the problem is a misunderstanding of viewpoint and terminology. The military officers are talking 'failure' in that the fancy hightech, luxury
equipment they thought could work 100% didn't. So they just fell back to olderstyle military doctrine and techniques and still got the job done well. The result in Iraq 2003 was still one of the most successful and quick military victories in history. What's learned in this conflict will go into improving the problems with force runaway (forces advance too fast for data links to reach them as data assets move forward) and data overload (can't download information fast enough or data is too voluminous). I was just at a military talk in Maryland at JHU/APL, these
are already being looked over.
But then a civilian (likely liberal and anti-military) reporter hear's a officer say the word 'failure' their ears perk up and a story gets written (read 'hyped')
mark
Saddam's regime had the UN resolutions on him, which he violated and which allow for a military response. The attack Bush started in Spring 03 was just a continuation of the continuous military conflict with Saddam since '91
(remember the no-fly zones and the Clinton cruise missile attacks against Hussein?)
There's not a similar set of circumstances with
N Korea, a US military,off-the-cuff attack against
NKorea really would be an "illegal war", at least if you're a believer in the legitimacy of the UN (their legitimacy is continuing to go down now that more of the oil-for-food situation is coming out). The proposal that the two situation are
on equal footing and the military just picked the one that's easier doesn't seem based in reality.
Did their stat take into account that it's almost
certain we'd dilute the hot waste with bulk material
like sand, dirt or rock that isn't radioactive?
That buys you a lot towards reducing the risk of the
waste.
Mark
Ask most French people and they'll tell you
that they don't want all these immigrants.
They don't like it because they don't French
as the French see it.
They don't absorb into French culture very well, the
Moslems split off and stick into their own areas,
don't learn to use the language and so on.
So now in France you have large areas that the
natives stay out of and vis versa.
If they were fitting in so well as you seem to say,
why did Chirac have to pass a law to stop the
wearing of head scarves?
In the US we have the same situation with
Mexican immigrants that refuse to learn English.
M.
IronChefMorimoto:
I think the politicians in Europe are pretty
desperate to keep the eyes of the typical European
away from the coming demographic economic disaster that's coming for the EU. The European states are typically becoming very old and won't have enough working people to support the government entitlement systems they have. Look at how France has to hold it's nose and put up with immigrating large numbers of arabs they don't really want.
Why Arab immigrants? Because as a group they are the most biased towards the young (take a look at Saudi Arabia which is very young demographically) and Europe needs lots of young immigrants to
compensate for their own populations not having
enough children. This seems to be a big problem
in the west in general, people are either deciding
kids are too expensive to afford or are just
deciding not to have them (why?)
M.
I wondered about this too, it would be expensive to setup an airlock system to actually pressurize the areas where the astronomers work to combat this fatigue issue. Part of the problem is you'd need air locks but also the buildings would have to be strengthen and mostly airtight (or at leak slowly enough so keeping it pumped up is not hard)
But another way to reduce fatigue would be to enrich the oxygen percentage in their living and working areas at the same pressure. That would give the benefits of higher pressure but would be easier to do. But you'd need a machine that can take normal air and purify Oxygen from it and inject that into the buildings (skip the telescope room since that's too wide open to the sky and modern astronomers don't hang out near the scope too much anyway). I'm guessing liquid oxygen or tanks being shipped in would be too much expense or hassle.
Mark
There is one thing to beware of with the mini-itx boards and cases. I bought a Checkercube case for my mini-itx Eden board (533MHz) and the included power supply was so weak that when I tried to use a modern high speed cdrom (say a 48x or 52x speed) to do the install of the os, I got unpredictable behavior. I think what happened was the cdrom was lowering the rail voltage so much at 12v that the board was crashing. I bought a antec 300W supply at ComaUSA and it's worked fine for the install and running. Unfortunately, 99.99% of the time I don't even need the cdrom or the higher power supply and this Antec PS can't even go in the checkercube case.
Mark
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Exactly!, the problem is a misunderstanding of viewpoint and terminology. The military officers are talking 'failure' in that the fancy hightech, luxury equipment they thought could work 100% didn't. So they just fell back to olderstyle military doctrine and techniques and still got the job done well. The result in Iraq 2003 was still one of the most successful and quick military victories in history. What's learned in this conflict will go into improving the problems with force runaway (forces advance too fast for data links to reach them as data assets move forward) and data overload (can't download information fast enough or data is too voluminous). I was just at a military talk in Maryland at JHU/APL, these are already being looked over. But then a civilian (likely liberal and anti-military) reporter hear's a officer say the word 'failure' their ears perk up and a story gets written (read 'hyped') mark
Saddam's regime had the UN resolutions on him, which he violated and which allow for a military response. The attack Bush started in Spring 03 was just a continuation of the continuous military conflict with Saddam since '91 (remember the no-fly zones and the Clinton cruise missile attacks against Hussein?) There's not a similar set of circumstances with N Korea, a US military,off-the-cuff attack against NKorea really would be an "illegal war", at least if you're a believer in the legitimacy of the UN (their legitimacy is continuing to go down now that more of the oil-for-food situation is coming out). The proposal that the two situation are on equal footing and the military just picked the one that's easier doesn't seem based in reality.
Did their stat take into account that it's almost certain we'd dilute the hot waste with bulk material like sand, dirt or rock that isn't radioactive? That buys you a lot towards reducing the risk of the waste. Mark
Ask most French people and they'll tell you that they don't want all these immigrants. They don't like it because they don't French as the French see it. They don't absorb into French culture very well, the Moslems split off and stick into their own areas, don't learn to use the language and so on. So now in France you have large areas that the natives stay out of and vis versa. If they were fitting in so well as you seem to say, why did Chirac have to pass a law to stop the wearing of head scarves? In the US we have the same situation with Mexican immigrants that refuse to learn English. M.
IronChefMorimoto: I think the politicians in Europe are pretty desperate to keep the eyes of the typical European away from the coming demographic economic disaster that's coming for the EU. The European states are typically becoming very old and won't have enough working people to support the government entitlement systems they have. Look at how France has to hold it's nose and put up with immigrating large numbers of arabs they don't really want. Why Arab immigrants? Because as a group they are the most biased towards the young (take a look at Saudi Arabia which is very young demographically) and Europe needs lots of young immigrants to compensate for their own populations not having enough children. This seems to be a big problem in the west in general, people are either deciding kids are too expensive to afford or are just deciding not to have them (why?) M.
I wondered about this too, it would be expensive to setup an airlock system to actually pressurize the areas where the astronomers work to combat this fatigue issue. Part of the problem is you'd need air locks but also the buildings would have to be strengthen and mostly airtight (or at leak slowly enough so keeping it pumped up is not hard) But another way to reduce fatigue would be to enrich the oxygen percentage in their living and working areas at the same pressure. That would give the benefits of higher pressure but would be easier to do. But you'd need a machine that can take normal air and purify Oxygen from it and inject that into the buildings (skip the telescope room since that's too wide open to the sky and modern astronomers don't hang out near the scope too much anyway). I'm guessing liquid oxygen or tanks being shipped in would be too much expense or hassle. Mark
If these bit flips are happening, why doesn't the parity test detect them? I've used computers for years and haven't seen parity errors. Mark
There is one thing to beware of with the mini-itx boards and cases. I bought a Checkercube case for my mini-itx Eden board (533MHz) and the included power supply was so weak that when I tried to use a modern high speed cdrom (say a 48x or 52x speed) to do the install of the os, I got unpredictable behavior. I think what happened was the cdrom was lowering the rail voltage so much at 12v that the board was crashing. I bought a antec 300W supply at ComaUSA and it's worked fine for the install and running. Unfortunately, 99.99% of the time I don't even need the cdrom or the higher power supply and this Antec PS can't even go in the checkercube case. Mark