At the nuclear plant I worked at, the workstations were running a mix of Windows 3.1, 95, and NT4. However, they were mostly for checking e-mail and writing documents, etc. The IPCS (Integrated Plant Computer System) that carried on the plant monitoring, was not Windows-based and on a completely different network and set of hardware. The other heavy lifting was done on a VAX cluster.
Granted, this was almost 10 year ago, before W2K was available, so I can't say that they didn't put some Windows boxes in critical roles.
at night when the power plants are idling in inefficient speeds
Baseload plants are too expensive to idle at night: they keep right on running. Power companies that have extra nighttime capacity sell the power to neighboring power companies at a reduced rate.
I worked at a nuclear power plant. The cooling reservior was connected through a hydro power plant and spillway to a river. The reactor was run at 100% all day long, since it's a baseload plant. To cover periods of high demand during the day, some of the reservior was drained to provide hydro power (and to cover critically high demand, there was a set of combustion turbines nearby). At night, the hydro power plant was run backwards to re-fill the reservoir. This takes about twice as much power as you get out of it during the day, but this extra power was bought cheaply from another power company in the region.
but even that is more than fast enough to water ski behind!
Not to deflate your point much, but the Mythbusters proved you could ski behind a strong rowing team. I like to think we project power through ships that cook a little faster than some guys rowing for all they're worth!:-)
Popcorn pops when a bit of water inside each kernel gets hot enough to vaporize into steam and increases the intra-kernel pressure beyond the kernel shell's ability to contain it.
Microwave ovens work by directly heating the water contained within food or food-like substances, so I don't think the butter on microwave popcorn is there for anything besides flavor.
Pre-microwave popcorn-cooking-technology depended on the hot oil (with a much higher specific heat than air, for example, plus buttery goodness!) to transfer heat energy into the kernel quickly enough to vaporize the water and pop the kernel before the shell was burned to a crisp.
You're reading a lot more into my comment than was actually written. The GP said "I've not seen one mens (sic) scholarship" (which could actually mean the submitter has seen either zero or at least two men's scholarships), so I merely pointed out one that is effectively a men-only scholarship.
However, I am curious what you mean. You seem to be saying that althetic scholarships have "nothing to do with learning" or aren't "targeted towards women to get a degree". That implies that athletic scholarships don't have academic performance requirements, but they do!
I think your sample size is too small. I've only ever heard them called pins, and I live in the USA. Badges, if they're bigger, especially if you don't need no steenkin' ones.
The salmondays.tv site, however, seems to have been replaced with something not entirely (or at all) suitable for work, so I didn't stick around to see if the original trailer was still there.
It works that way for me on Windows, but on my Debian install it reloads some page in that tab. Both are fairly stock installs. I haven't bothered to figure out which page middle-clicking reloads, though.
I also find it highly amusing that people used to complain about glare from a screen until suitable anti-reflective coatings were developed. Now they pay extra for the Sony X-brite screens (or whatever it's called these days) that look great but reflect a lot.
I don't think they're any less evil or stupid than the RIAA. It's just that because to distribute their content requires files orders of magnitude larger than the RIAA's content, they have had a bit more time to drag their feet on things.
Remember, the MPAA are the knuckleheads who kept showing those "Please don't pirate: think of the carpenters!" PSAs to audiences who pretty much had to pay to get into the theater in the first place. The people sneaking camcorders in probably weren't going to care anyway.
was mistaken for a homeless guy (long ratty hair, ripped tshirt, no shoes, etc.) by about half the class until he stood up and introduced himself
Your lecturer was RMS!?!
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I have nothing whatsoever to do with Parallels in any way, shape, or form. What, I talk up a product that I (and many, many others) have been waiting for for YEARS, and now all of a sudden it's marketing?
You posted nearly the same paragraph in two threads on consecutive days. It smells a lot like marketing, even if that's not your stated intention:
Virtualization company Parallels [parallels.com] announced that it will be bringing its Parallels Workstation virtualization product to Intel-based Macs [techworld.com]. Parallels is a hypervisor-based (with a kernel module) virtual machine solution already shipping for Windows and Linux, and is the first desktop virtualization product to support Intel VT/Vanderpool CPU "partitioning". It's also only $50. Parallels also has a long list of officially supported guest OSes [parallels.com], and that's just the ones that are *officially* supported. So either way, we'll have a nice dual boot solution AND a nice virtualization solution!
Virtualization company Parallels [parallels.com] announced a public beta of its Parallels Workstation virtualization product to Intel-based Macs [parallels.com] (direct download [parallels.com]. Parallels is a quasi-hypervisor-based (with a kernel module) virtual machine solution already shipping for Windows and Linux, and is the first desktop virtualization product to support Intel VT/Vanderpool CPU "partitioning". Once out of beta, It will also be only $50. Parallels also has a long list of officially supported guest OSes [parallels.com], and that's just the ones that are *officially* supported. It will likely run any x86-based OS you throw at it.
Apple won't switch to Windows, not while Jobs is still at the helm.
Remember, years ago, Apple was developing a new OS, Copland (if I remember right), while being headed by Gil Amelio. Jobs was at NeXT, then. Then, Jobs comes back to Apple (billowing S-emblemed cape and all), ousts Amelio, throws out the bathwater AND the baby of the Copland project, and replaces it all with OS X, whose other parent besides BSD is NeXTStep.
So, replacing OS X with Windows would be tantamount to admitting that the heroic rescuscitation of Apple was, I dunno, not worth the effort or something.
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Sigh... Dell laptops would transform into Decepticons.
:-)
Kids these days, feh.
At the nuclear plant I worked at, the workstations were running a mix of Windows 3.1, 95, and NT4. However, they were mostly for checking e-mail and writing documents, etc. The IPCS (Integrated Plant Computer System) that carried on the plant monitoring, was not Windows-based and on a completely different network and set of hardware. The other heavy lifting was done on a VAX cluster.
Granted, this was almost 10 year ago, before W2K was available, so I can't say that they didn't put some Windows boxes in critical roles.
Baseload plants are too expensive to idle at night: they keep right on running. Power companies that have extra nighttime capacity sell the power to neighboring power companies at a reduced rate.
I worked at a nuclear power plant. The cooling reservior was connected through a hydro power plant and spillway to a river. The reactor was run at 100% all day long, since it's a baseload plant. To cover periods of high demand during the day, some of the reservior was drained to provide hydro power (and to cover critically high demand, there was a set of combustion turbines nearby). At night, the hydro power plant was run backwards to re-fill the reservoir. This takes about twice as much power as you get out of it during the day, but this extra power was bought cheaply from another power company in the region.
Pretty spiffy plan, if you ask me!
Not to deflate your point much, but the Mythbusters proved you could ski behind a strong rowing team. I like to think we project power through ships that cook a little faster than some guys rowing for all they're worth!
Popcorn pops when a bit of water inside each kernel gets hot enough to vaporize into steam and increases the intra-kernel pressure beyond the kernel shell's ability to contain it.
Microwave ovens work by directly heating the water contained within food or food-like substances, so I don't think the butter on microwave popcorn is there for anything besides flavor.
Pre-microwave popcorn-cooking-technology depended on the hot oil (with a much higher specific heat than air, for example, plus buttery goodness!) to transfer heat energy into the kernel quickly enough to vaporize the water and pop the kernel before the shell was burned to a crisp.
At least, that's how I think it works, heh.
Please consider a joke about Florida and "peninsular" to have been made in this comment, and we're all the better for leaving this gutter.
Whew! That was close.
Posts like that make me wish mod points could go to eleven.
Space: 1999, dude! You think they make that shit up? Geez... :-)
That's just disturbing, man...
Probably not, as this had already been investigated to help design earlier space suits:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.
You make good points I can agree with.
:-)
But this is Slashdot, so I feel like I have to turn in my badge or something...
You're reading a lot more into my comment than was actually written. The GP said "I've not seen one mens (sic) scholarship" (which could actually mean the submitter has seen either zero or at least two men's scholarships), so I merely pointed out one that is effectively a men-only scholarship.
However, I am curious what you mean. You seem to be saying that althetic scholarships have "nothing to do with learning" or aren't "targeted towards women to get a degree". That implies that athletic scholarships don't have academic performance requirements, but they do!
I think your sample size is too small. I've only ever heard them called pins, and I live in the USA. Badges, if they're bigger, especially if you don't need no steenkin' ones.
I don't think it's technically gender-based, but not too many women get full scholarships to play football, heh.
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If I had mod points, I'd have modded both you and EmbeddedJanitor funny. Like Liebnitz and Newton, except with jokes!
They sort-of did. It was called Salmon Days: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/08/salmon_da
The salmondays.tv site, however, seems to have been replaced with something not entirely (or at all) suitable for work, so I didn't stick around to see if the original trailer was still there.
iTunes 7 addressed every last issue I had with it.
Quicktime still installs an icon in your system tray in Windows, no matter if you had that checkbox deselected previously. Dammit.
Disadvantage: Overuse of colon.
Whatever you do in the privacy of your bathroom should stay in the privacy of your bathroom.
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It works that way for me on Windows, but on my Debian install it reloads some page in that tab. Both are fairly stock installs. I haven't bothered to figure out which page middle-clicking reloads, though.
Yes! Absolutely.
I also find it highly amusing that people used to complain about glare from a screen until suitable anti-reflective coatings were developed. Now they pay extra for the Sony X-brite screens (or whatever it's called these days) that look great but reflect a lot.
I don't think they're any less evil or stupid than the RIAA. It's just that because to distribute their content requires files orders of magnitude larger than the RIAA's content, they have had a bit more time to drag their feet on things.
Remember, the MPAA are the knuckleheads who kept showing those "Please don't pirate: think of the carpenters!" PSAs to audiences who pretty much had to pay to get into the theater in the first place. The people sneaking camcorders in probably weren't going to care anyway.
was mistaken for a homeless guy (long ratty hair, ripped tshirt, no shoes, etc.) by about half the class until he stood up and introduced himself
Your lecturer was RMS!?!
I have nothing whatsoever to do with Parallels in any way, shape, or form. What, I talk up a product that I (and many, many others) have been waiting for for YEARS, and now all of a sudden it's marketing?
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You posted nearly the same paragraph in two threads on consecutive days. It smells a lot like marketing, even if that's not your stated intention:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182273&cid=15
Virtualization company Parallels [parallels.com] announced that it will be bringing its Parallels Workstation virtualization product to Intel-based Macs [techworld.com]. Parallels is a hypervisor-based (with a kernel module) virtual machine solution already shipping for Windows and Linux, and is the first desktop virtualization product to support Intel VT/Vanderpool CPU "partitioning". It's also only $50. Parallels also has a long list of officially supported guest OSes [parallels.com], and that's just the ones that are *officially* supported. So either way, we'll have a nice dual boot solution AND a nice virtualization solution!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182379&cid=15
Virtualization company Parallels [parallels.com] announced a public beta of its Parallels Workstation virtualization product to Intel-based Macs [parallels.com] (direct download [parallels.com]. Parallels is a quasi-hypervisor-based (with a kernel module) virtual machine solution already shipping for Windows and Linux, and is the first desktop virtualization product to support Intel VT/Vanderpool CPU "partitioning". Once out of beta, It will also be only $50. Parallels also has a long list of officially supported guest OSes [parallels.com], and that's just the ones that are *officially* supported. It will likely run any x86-based OS you throw at it.
Look no further.
Apple won't switch to Windows, not while Jobs is still at the helm.
Remember, years ago, Apple was developing a new OS, Copland (if I remember right), while being headed by Gil Amelio. Jobs was at NeXT, then. Then, Jobs comes back to Apple (billowing S-emblemed cape and all), ousts Amelio, throws out the bathwater AND the baby of the Copland project, and replaces it all with OS X, whose other parent besides BSD is NeXTStep.
So, replacing OS X with Windows would be tantamount to admitting that the heroic rescuscitation of Apple was, I dunno, not worth the effort or something.