embrittlement makes storage and transportation a problem... Of course Nuclear doesn't have these problems
Neutron irradiation embrittlement is a significant problem affecting the pressure vessels (and other components) of nuclear reactors, this is a fundamental issue that limits the lifespan of nuclear reactor by introducing failure modes that include the destruction of the pressure vessel containing the fuel.
And any one that brings up the C word is just spreading FUD since it that disaster would never have been allowed to have been built in the US.
Proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (PBMR) are designed with the same reduced containment that Chernobyl was built with. Chernobyl illustrated what happens when it goes wrong with a reactor, that some failure modes of reactors are fatal for many thousands of people. To say that's FUD is patently a way to avoid the facts, especially when gaining a proper understanding of the complexities of the Nuclear industry is essential if it is to evolve past the point where it presents serious operational concerns over it's entire industrial cycle.
Proposed new generation 'once-through' series' reactors, like the AP-1000, are designed with significantly reduced containment. They have been designed this way to reduce the expense of building them, as the sheer volume of concrete required to build a reactor containment building is one of the highest input costs (as well as concrete being the third greatest contributor of greenhouse gasses).
So if a reactor is built in the US to today's abbreviated containment standards, yes, that reactor would include a failure mode similar to what occurred at Chernobyl. That is not FUD, that's a consequence of the design.
Maybe the RIAA will try to copyright the case as a performed artwork and then charge the defendants for access.:-(
I often wonder at the spill over effects of the RIAA's machinations on the IT industry? What I mean is, surely the constant lobbying to alter copyright law for music has the same effect on Information Technology works.
The thing that concerns me most is if the RIAA's clumsy flailing to maintain their business model is actually stifling innovation within the I.T industry, I think it does. After all, a new model of music distribution was a by-product of the net affecting the media industry, where-as copyright law affects all software written for all industries.
A long time ago a colleague said to me 'You won't change the net, but the net will change you'. I think the music industry doesn't have any ideas for how they will survive. For years they have ripped off the very artists that provided them with an income and ripped of people who want to buy music, generating a lot of ill will towards them. So now, as artists are finding a way to have a dialogue directly with their fans and by-pass traditional channels, it's appears the Record industry has lost the opportunity to build a new business model. We all know that here.
But I wonder how long we will have to deal with the fall-out from all the laws that the RIAA have lobbied to bring into being and, what the long term issues will be for the IT industry's capacity to innovate new business modes for other business models keen on reducing their costs.
will take a series of advertisement's, rather than just one ad, and in a series of focused campaigns. Currently the market has not been prepared for Linux that addresses the most simple question, "OK, I want linux, where do I buy it?"
A series of ad's should narrowly targeted at power users and early adopters with the goal of educating the market, be astute using attractive, well spoken people. By focusing on the positives and generating interest, people will feel they have been given something of value to ponder and become aware that an alternative exists.
I would not mention that it is free, because that does not create an incentive to own it.
The value of Linux should stand on its own, so that the viewer attaches a perceived value (wow, that software has got to be worth at least $dollars). When they want to know more they go to some web address where they discover that it's free, which is how you close the deal. The buyer discovers they can satisfy the impulse to own immediately just by clicking download.
Marketing is like hacking people into doing something, in effect, it's social engineering on a mass scale. Unless a certain mindset can be generated, nothing will happen. Trying to 'dumb it down' won't work for Linux because that's not what it's about, appealing to users values however, might generate considerable interest. When they discover "hey this great software is free" their perceived value will persist, but they will also gain self satisfaction that they have been smart enough to 'have' this software for 'free' instead of their 'perceived value'.
This is because the software has enough positives to sell itself, so let it.
Seeing as fox hunting involves a bunch of extremely rich... and ripping it to shreds just for the sake of it
Except in Australia where Foxes devastate the native wildlife.
And hunting foxes is hard, you rarely see them in the day and at night, when you hunt them you can only see the gleam in their eyes, which they learn to close so they can hide - very cunning animal. In the meantime they have ripped apart thousands of species of birds and marsupials, so if those "extremely rich" want to come over here and hunt foxes let them bag as many as they can, we have too many of them.
It would be exceedingly optimistic to think that a structure as immense as a space elevator would not have significant engineering challenges ahead of it. It doesn't make it impossible - it makes it a series of engineering challenges that are incrementally solved. That's how progress throughout human history has been defined.
If we bowed to those who say 'it's impossible' we would still be living in caves. I don't think it's ignorant to imagine what it would be like to have a space elevator and that we should build one, but it is ignorant to say that the problems are insurmountable.
I read the NIAC proposal by Edwards and, from memory, oscillations on a tether some 100,000Kms long were already a consideration, as was space debris, as was conductivity, as was atomic oxygen - these are some of the challenges - as is developing long strands of CNT's in the first place.
Ok, the trip will take a week or two, how long did a rail trip take across the us when rail was first established, or a plane flight from one side of the world to the other. Building a Space Elevator is going to be a very difficult thing to achieve. It's not anything we didn't already know, so keep on uncovering the engineering challenges and eventually none will remain. Then we can move on to solving them.
Warp 8.2
Warp 9.0
Warp 9.0a
Warp 9.0b
Warp 9.0c
Kirk: Scotty, Weee neeeed Mooorreee Poooowwwweeeerrr
Scotty: I've given yeah all she's got Cap'n , Ye canny Break the laws of physics
Which is why you will never see warp 10. Obviously no-one at Microsoft has seen Star Trek otherwise they would already know this is impossible. Or perhaps they are trying to tell us something
First say the system won't be used for this or that to quiet opposition and then introduce it. Once deployed the scope creep begins. For the amount of data leaks the UK government has had, it surprising that UK citizens allow any personal information to be captured digitally at all.
Great, so all we have to do is burn off all other oil sources to heat the planet up enough to melt the ice cap to get more oil.....Trust me, if that happens, the last thing we'll be worried about is finding more oil. The average year would make the last El Nino year seem like scattered showers with mild gusts.
Exactly! It's a question I see very few people asking Will weather events become so bad that we become unable to use the remaining oil reserves?
It's like the oil industry is the Pied Piper merrily leading us to our destruction, desperate to maintain it's profits coming at the human race's expense. All while industrial scale investment into wind, geothermal, wave and solar, which would be a great economic stimulus to get us out of this financial mess we are in, are ignored to maintain the status quo.
you didn't mention what the plugin was for eclipse
Indeed, I didn't. It's viplugin. It has some quirks including;
marks work but lose their position when you ad or remove lines
(c)hanging a (w)ord when using a middle paste dosen't remember the change when you iterate a search and then do a . (repeat last command)
you can't paste into a command buffer (annoying)
some of the vi functions I mentioned don't work
It mostly works which is weird considering the vi plugin for vs works better.
I'm pretty sure it was viemu. I'm doing my dev work in eclipse now, but I do remember that the VS vi plugin was pretty good, actually seems a little better than the vi plugin I am using for eclipse.
Oh yeah and another vi thing I remembered that if you position the cursor over a word and press # it will load that word into the search buffer so you can do a n/N for the next or previous occurrence (which I've just discovered dosen't work in my vi plugin )-:
Also, you can do use "ma" to mark the beginning line, "mb" to mark the ending line, and then:
:'a,'bs/FROM/TO/g
And if you add a c (confirm) to the end
:'a,'bs/FROM/TO/gc
you will get a Y/N to replace that instance or not, in case you don't want to replace every occurrence. if you search like this:'a,'b g/FINDME/ s/FROM/TO/gc
vi will ask for confirmation to replace FROM to TO only on line between a and b markers on lines with the string FINDME on it.
:.,$ g/FINDME/p
will search from your current cursor position (.) to the end of the document ($) and get/regular expression/ print (i.e grep) inside of vi.
456G
go to the 456 line (G for the last line)
These are a few of my favourite things. Vi plugin for Eclipse and Visual Studio actually makes them have a worthwhile editor, I couldn't imagine not having all the effort I invested into using vi available in some of the "editors" available today.
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it would not be safe.
Besides you can do your own googling. Hint: read up on Davis-Besse to get you started.
Neutron irradiation embrittlement is a significant problem affecting the pressure vessels (and other components) of nuclear reactors, this is a fundamental issue that limits the lifespan of nuclear reactor by introducing failure modes that include the destruction of the pressure vessel containing the fuel.
Proposed Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (PBMR) are designed with the same reduced containment that Chernobyl was built with. Chernobyl illustrated what happens when it goes wrong with a reactor, that some failure modes of reactors are fatal for many thousands of people. To say that's FUD is patently a way to avoid the facts, especially when gaining a proper understanding of the complexities of the Nuclear industry is essential if it is to evolve past the point where it presents serious operational concerns over it's entire industrial cycle.
Proposed new generation 'once-through' series' reactors, like the AP-1000, are designed with significantly reduced containment. They have been designed this way to reduce the expense of building them, as the sheer volume of concrete required to build a reactor containment building is one of the highest input costs (as well as concrete being the third greatest contributor of greenhouse gasses).
So if a reactor is built in the US to today's abbreviated containment standards, yes, that reactor would include a failure mode similar to what occurred at Chernobyl. That is not FUD, that's a consequence of the design.
Most nuclear advocates wouldn't even know how to spell safety properly, let alone implement it.
I often wonder at the spill over effects of the RIAA's machinations on the IT industry? What I mean is, surely the constant lobbying to alter copyright law for music has the same effect on Information Technology works.
The thing that concerns me most is if the RIAA's clumsy flailing to maintain their business model is actually stifling innovation within the I.T industry, I think it does. After all, a new model of music distribution was a by-product of the net affecting the media industry, where-as copyright law affects all software written for all industries.
A long time ago a colleague said to me 'You won't change the net, but the net will change you'. I think the music industry doesn't have any ideas for how they will survive. For years they have ripped off the very artists that provided them with an income and ripped of people who want to buy music, generating a lot of ill will towards them. So now, as artists are finding a way to have a dialogue directly with their fans and by-pass traditional channels, it's appears the Record industry has lost the opportunity to build a new business model. We all know that here.
But I wonder how long we will have to deal with the fall-out from all the laws that the RIAA have lobbied to bring into being and, what the long term issues will be for the IT industry's capacity to innovate new business modes for other business models keen on reducing their costs.
is that you Mr Cleese?
Stupid people is how we got into this mess in the first place.
A series of ad's should narrowly targeted at power users and early adopters with the goal of educating the market, be astute using attractive, well spoken people. By focusing on the positives and generating interest, people will feel they have been given something of value to ponder and become aware that an alternative exists.
I would not mention that it is free, because that does not create an incentive to own it.
The value of Linux should stand on its own, so that the viewer attaches a perceived value (wow, that software has got to be worth at least $dollars). When they want to know more they go to some web address where they discover that it's free, which is how you close the deal. The buyer discovers they can satisfy the impulse to own immediately just by clicking download.
Marketing is like hacking people into doing something, in effect, it's social engineering on a mass scale. Unless a certain mindset can be generated, nothing will happen. Trying to 'dumb it down' won't work for Linux because that's not what it's about, appealing to users values however, might generate considerable interest. When they discover "hey this great software is free" their perceived value will persist, but they will also gain self satisfaction that they have been smart enough to 'have' this software for 'free' instead of their 'perceived value'.
This is because the software has enough positives to sell itself, so let it.
Now git off my lorn
Except in Australia where Foxes devastate the native wildlife.
And hunting foxes is hard, you rarely see them in the day and at night, when you hunt them you can only see the gleam in their eyes, which they learn to close so they can hide - very cunning animal. In the meantime they have ripped apart thousands of species of birds and marsupials, so if those "extremely rich" want to come over here and hunt foxes let them bag as many as they can, we have too many of them.
You are Sol's
XP is three times more valuable than Vista.
I hope she told the other teachers to do the same thing.
If we bowed to those who say 'it's impossible' we would still be living in caves. I don't think it's ignorant to imagine what it would be like to have a space elevator and that we should build one, but it is ignorant to say that the problems are insurmountable.
I read the NIAC proposal by Edwards and, from memory, oscillations on a tether some 100,000Kms long were already a consideration, as was space debris, as was conductivity, as was atomic oxygen - these are some of the challenges - as is developing long strands of CNT's in the first place.
Ok, the trip will take a week or two, how long did a rail trip take across the us when rail was first established, or a plane flight from one side of the world to the other. Building a Space Elevator is going to be a very difficult thing to achieve. It's not anything we didn't already know, so keep on uncovering the engineering challenges and eventually none will remain. Then we can move on to solving them.
Bit's of my brain as I try to deal with cross browser Javascript incompatibilities. I think it will go something like this...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - BOOOOM
Which is why you will never see warp 10. Obviously no-one at Microsoft has seen Star Trek otherwise they would already know this is impossible. Or perhaps they are trying to tell us something
the best games ever
Now that's funny.
I thought there was only one Gene Simmons, who does he think he is, Sting, Flea?
to I'm Being Managed
First say the system won't be used for this or that to quiet opposition and then introduce it. Once deployed the scope creep begins. For the amount of data leaks the UK government has had, it surprising that UK citizens allow any personal information to be captured digitally at all.
Exactly! It's a question I see very few people asking Will weather events become so bad that we become unable to use the remaining oil reserves?
It's like the oil industry is the Pied Piper merrily leading us to our destruction, desperate to maintain it's profits coming at the human race's expense. All while industrial scale investment into wind, geothermal, wave and solar, which would be a great economic stimulus to get us out of this financial mess we are in, are ignored to maintain the status quo.
Indeed, I didn't. It's viplugin. It has some quirks including;
marks work but lose their position when you ad or remove lines (c)hanging a (w)ord when using a middle paste dosen't remember the change when you iterate a search and then do a . (repeat last command)
you can't paste into a command buffer (annoying)
some of the vi functions I mentioned don't work
It mostly works which is weird considering the vi plugin for vs works better.
Oh yeah and another vi thing I remembered that if you position the cursor over a word and press # it will load that word into the search buffer so you can do a n/N for the next or previous occurrence (which I've just discovered dosen't work in my vi plugin )-:
And if you add a c (confirm) to the end
you will get a Y/N to replace that instance or not, in case you don't want to replace every occurrence. if you search like this :'a,'b g/FINDME/ s/FROM/TO/gc
vi will ask for confirmation to replace FROM to TO only on line between a and b markers on lines with the string FINDME on it.
456G
go to the 456 line (G for the last line)
These are a few of my favourite things. Vi plugin for Eclipse and Visual Studio actually makes them have a worthwhile editor, I couldn't imagine not having all the effort I invested into using vi available in some of the "editors" available today.
if you use ssh -X it will automatically set up X client forwarding to your local X server. Additionally ssh can compress the connection as well.