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On a side note, it's funny that there have been no Mac trolls so far:)
That's because Mac users smart enough to buy a Das Keyboard are also smart enough to find the setting in System Preferences that lets you swap the Command and Option keys so that it behaves as expected. In Leopard, this can even be done device-by-device, thus alleviating CmdrTaco's problem.
Using ControllerMate, I was even able to add volume keys and an Eject button (used the PrtScr, Scroll Lock, and Pause buttons for volume.)
Heh. I attended the Office 95 launch in Fort Wayne, IN, and they were handing out free copies of Windows 95 and Office 95 Professional to all attendees. Thus launched my ignoble career as an Access programmer. I have since repented, but hey, it paid the bills and taught me SQL (because I couldn't do Union queries without it).
Go back and read. I am bemoaning the ignorance and the exploitation of same, not saying that there's absolutely nothing to worry about with nuclear power. If people took the time to understand what is going on, there would be a whole lot less fear, and a whole lot fewer people to manipulate politically, on both sides of the issue.
Besides, what you describe as a "problem" is how the whole bloody thing works.Every nuclear reactor has critical mass. You create a controlled critical mass and contain it to produce massive amounts of heat.
And, actually, the radiation itself does just evaporate, in the form of beta and gamma particles, particles which, on their own, evaporate rapidly into their component parts. However, on the way to doing that they hit things. The things they hit get damaged. A few of the things they hit get damaged enough to become radioactive themselves, in the form of isotopes. Most of them are short-lived, with half-lives of seconds to days. Some, such as certain metals like iron are not. The problem with a criticality accident is not with the induced isotopes, because there would not be enough of them to matter. In a criticality accident, the critical mass is short-lived, because critical masses are hard to maintain unless tightly controlled (which an accident, by definition, is not). The effects of the induced radioactivity are dwarfed by the direct effects of radiation: burns, genetic damage, etc. But once the mass is no longer critical, that effect ends.
The explosion was chemical, driven by gases and steam generated by the core runaway, not by nuclear reactions; no commercial nuclear reactor contains a high enough concentration of U-235 or plutonium to cause a nuclear explosion. So - you say otherwise. Fine, whatever. Get off my case. It doesn't change the essential point I made, Mr. Anonymous.
The ignorance on nuclear reactors tends to irk me. I remember reading an Iron Man comic once, where Iron Man goes into the cooling tower, pulls out the reactor core, and throws it up into space, where it blows up in a nuclear explosion.
Problems being, as you noted the nuclear core is not in the cooling tower, and nuclear cores can't blow up like a nuclear bomb. Nuclear Physics 101. It just can't happen.
Fission bombs are set off by the rapid forming of a critical mass, either by joining two halves of a critical mass together in a millisecond's time, or, as with plutonium, by rapid implosion, usually of a sphere, causing the material to rapidly condense into a critical mass. (roughly described - I am not a nuclear physicist, so don't go all picky on the fine details everyone). It's an incredibly precise thing to get right. It doesn't just happen. Form the critical mass too slowly, and you create a whole lot of heat and radiation, but no boom.
I imagine that most of the fearful public does not understand this, even on a rudimentary level, and equates nuclear reactors with nuclear bombs. How many people think that Chernobyl was a nuclear explosion? Most I talk to. The no-nukes zealots commonly exploit this fear and ignorance. They are not interested in science, but in their ideology.
The waste produced by a coal plant is more radioactive than nuclear waste. We would have far less radioactive waste with nuclear power than with coal.
As China continues to lead the world in technologically sophisticated counterfeit products, their spokesperson declares, "We are definitely a 3rd world developing nation. Even now we are just learning what a kee-bored is."
My company has been hacked by.CN IP addresses at least twice. I see portscans and brute-force SSH bots coming out of China all the time.
But films move, and therefore are way less sensitive to this kind of thing than static images are. That makes no sense whatsoever.
Films are in a colorspace, just like any color image. Things move in black and white too, but nobody confuses it with color. Brighter more vibrant color would most definitely be an improvement, quite visible, even to the untrained eye. This is just as true with a still as with a video. Producers would LOVE to have more gamut to work with. Right now they don't. That will change.
Framerate has nothing to do with color gamut. Nothing. Increase the framerate all you want, and the color won't get any more vibrant.
A higher framerate can, however, help with perceived resolution, choppiness, etc.
The Christian Bible is a Government Publication. What an idiotic assertion. Go study the history of the Council of Nicaea. You are spouting a myth.
First off, Constantine convened the council to settle the Arian heresy. Constantine was hoping for some sort of reconciliation, but nevertheless enforced the council's decision. Shortly thereafter Constantine started switching sides, and by the end of his life he was baptized by an Arian bishop. So, yeah, Constantine convened the council, but he had nothing to do with the outcome.
Second, Nicaea had nothing to do with establishing the canon of Scripture. Nothing Whatsoever. Nada. Zilch. BZZT! try again.
How do I know? First, the only official proceedings from Nicaea were the Nicaean Creed, 20 canons, and a general letter, none of which even mention the canon of Scripture. Go read them if you don't believe me. Seems kind of strange that if they did something as momentous as "write the Bible" that there would be something in here about it. Hmm.
Second, go check the contemporaneous accounts. Not a one of them mentions anything about determining the contents of the Bible. So, let's see. Nothing in the official proceedings. Nothing in the contemporaneous accounts. In fact, Nothing in the Wikipedia article either. Double Hmm...
Why utterly useless? Bluray disks already show banding in some gradients. 16-bit would eliminate that. Wider gamut for movies would give more room for creativity. I don't think it's quite "utterly" useless. Just mostly useless - today.
Here's why: A display like this can be calibrated to more closely capture the xvYCC colorspace. Someday the HD standards may be updated to support 16-bit xvYCC, (HDMI 1.3 already does) which means that your movies will not only be crystal clear 1080p, but will have vibrant color far beyond what is available even at the most high-tech digital theater.
Right now, though, Bluray is 8-bit 4:2:0 color. No where near what this panel can display.
If true, wouldn't that qualify as replication of the Podkletnov effect?
IMHO, the key there isn't superconductivity. It's the rotating magnetic field that is important. But it has to be strong enough and fast enough, so that basically means you need superconductivity to achieve it. Anyway, that's how they do it at Pine Gap.:D
You don't understand. Mens rea is required in all cases, whatever the crime. It is not specific to murder. It's true for homicide, theft, fraud, etc. It's a foundational principle of law.
Even with the lower standard of homicide, where proof of negligence might be sufficient, mens rea still applies. You have to prove that the offending party was knowingly negligent in such a manner that they know the risk to life and limb.
I'm more than willing to countenance that corporations like Ford are getting special treatment. But the nature of a corporation is that it is a legal fiction. It cannot be accused of murder or homicide. A corporation cannot serve a prison term. Only a real person can be accused of murder. You would need to carry in an engineer, a CEO, etc., who would be a flesh-and-blood person whom you could accuse of willful negligence, etc. Thus, for example, the justice department did not prosecute Enron, but Ken Lay.
By that view, if you want to commit murder, creating a faulty product that kills people is certainly the best way to get away with it. Yes, except for one not-so-minor requirement of law called mens rea. In other words, to use your example, in order to charge someone with murder, they actually had to have the intent to commit murder.
If you believe that Ford motor company has the intent to commit murder, you are welcome to your opinion, however illogical it may be.
Which do you suppose it is? Intelligent Design and Creationism are synonymous. There's no difference between the two. It's very foolish to pretend otherwise. ID is the term that people seem to use these days. Whatever. It's all the same thing.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to allow your touchiness to censor my speech. First, I'm not touchy. Thought we settled that already. You couldn't offend me if you tried. (You weren't seriously trying before, were you?) Second, quit with the martyr crap. Nobody's trying to censor you. Third, a reminder: The more you resort to ad hominem, the smaller you look to everybody else.
Awww, muffin. Did I huwt youw wee wiffle feewings? Is this the part where I get to compare you to Hitler and bring the discussion to an abrupt end?
Any other questions? Just one. Feeling better now?
I suggest you take some remedial English classes I suggest you follow the discussion more carefully.
I quite clearly stated that you are welcome to question evolution. . .. Pardon? How did this get into a discussion of evolution? I certainly wasn't talking about it. I was talking about alternative theories of physics. How exactly does the electric universe theory = denial of evolution? For the record, I believe in the standard model, including the big bang.
You conveniently ignored that, and went on construct a straw man and complain about everyone picking on you for daring to question the establishment. Poor you. Wasn't talking about me, buddy. So far, nobody's picking on me here. I was talking about your license to belittle and offend ("God's Gargantuan Fart, and that interstellar space is composed of His Holy Flatulence").
What I WOULD be offended by is your attempt to pervert the scientific method in order to try and "prove" your theory. You guys (yeah, generalizing here) are really fixated on ID, aren't you? Why is that?
You are evidently more than welcome to belittle and offend anyone who holds a shred of religious faith, and you will no doubt be modded up, because this is Slashdot, after all. But heaven forbid that any part of a well-established theory be called into question. That's just heresy, and anyone doing it should be burned.
I'm just sayin'...
For the record, as an ID'er (which of course, means that I am a Neanderthal ooga-booga sun worshipper, somewhat below a monkey in intelligence), I am rather embarrassed at what passes for science among Creationists these days, particularly when they use material that they just do not understand.
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On a side note, it's funny that there have been no Mac trolls so far :)
That's because Mac users smart enough to buy a Das Keyboard are also smart enough to find the setting in System Preferences that lets you swap the Command and Option keys so that it behaves as expected. In Leopard, this can even be done device-by-device, thus alleviating CmdrTaco's problem.
Using ControllerMate, I was even able to add volume keys and an Eject button (used the PrtScr, Scroll Lock, and Pause buttons for volume.)
I love my Das Keyboard II.
Heh. I attended the Office 95 launch in Fort Wayne, IN, and they were handing out free copies of Windows 95 and Office 95 Professional to all attendees. Thus launched my ignoble career as an Access programmer. I have since repented, but hey, it paid the bills and taught me SQL (because I couldn't do Union queries without it).
And all this time, I thought it had something to do with occult rituals and human sacrifice.
Go back and read. I am bemoaning the ignorance and the exploitation of same, not saying that there's absolutely nothing to worry about with nuclear power. If people took the time to understand what is going on, there would be a whole lot less fear, and a whole lot fewer people to manipulate politically, on both sides of the issue.
Besides, what you describe as a "problem" is how the whole bloody thing works. Every nuclear reactor has critical mass. You create a controlled critical mass and contain it to produce massive amounts of heat.
And, actually, the radiation itself does just evaporate, in the form of beta and gamma particles, particles which, on their own, evaporate rapidly into their component parts. However, on the way to doing that they hit things. The things they hit get damaged. A few of the things they hit get damaged enough to become radioactive themselves, in the form of isotopes. Most of them are short-lived, with half-lives of seconds to days. Some, such as certain metals like iron are not. The problem with a criticality accident is not with the induced isotopes, because there would not be enough of them to matter. In a criticality accident, the critical mass is short-lived, because critical masses are hard to maintain unless tightly controlled (which an accident, by definition, is not). The effects of the induced radioactivity are dwarfed by the direct effects of radiation: burns, genetic damage, etc. But once the mass is no longer critical, that effect ends.
Water ice sublimates on a cold day here in Minnesota. That's why the frost on my window disappears while I am driving.
It doesn't need low atmospheric pressure.
And for the record: I don't think you are a troll. :)
Thank you for your response. It's very informative, highly pedantic, and extremely condescending.
I understand that reactors have a controlled critical mass. Duh. That's what produces the heat. I never said otherwise.
As to the "nuclear" explosion, Chernobyl, et all - I have spoken to two different nuclear engineers who disagree with you. They are my sources.
Here is another one (Frontline):
The explosion was chemical, driven by gases and steam generated by the core runaway, not by nuclear reactions; no commercial nuclear reactor contains a high enough concentration of U-235 or plutonium to cause a nuclear explosion. So - you say otherwise. Fine, whatever. Get off my case. It doesn't change the essential point I made, Mr. Anonymous.Go study. It will do you some good.
Thank you.
The ignorance on nuclear reactors tends to irk me. I remember reading an Iron Man comic once, where Iron Man goes into the cooling tower, pulls out the reactor core, and throws it up into space, where it blows up in a nuclear explosion.
Problems being, as you noted the nuclear core is not in the cooling tower, and nuclear cores can't blow up like a nuclear bomb. Nuclear Physics 101. It just can't happen.
Fission bombs are set off by the rapid forming of a critical mass, either by joining two halves of a critical mass together in a millisecond's time, or, as with plutonium, by rapid implosion, usually of a sphere, causing the material to rapidly condense into a critical mass. (roughly described - I am not a nuclear physicist, so don't go all picky on the fine details everyone). It's an incredibly precise thing to get right. It doesn't just happen. Form the critical mass too slowly, and you create a whole lot of heat and radiation, but no boom.
I imagine that most of the fearful public does not understand this, even on a rudimentary level, and equates nuclear reactors with nuclear bombs. How many people think that Chernobyl was a nuclear explosion? Most I talk to. The no-nukes zealots commonly exploit this fear and ignorance. They are not interested in science, but in their ideology.
The waste produced by a coal plant is more radioactive than nuclear waste. We would have far less radioactive waste with nuclear power than with coal.
As China continues to lead the world in technologically sophisticated counterfeit products, their spokesperson declares, "We are definitely a 3rd world developing nation. Even now we are just learning what a kee-bored is."
.CN IP addresses at least twice. I see portscans and brute-force SSH bots coming out of China all the time.
My company has been hacked by
Maybe THAT's where Elbonia is.
Films are in a colorspace, just like any color image. Things move in black and white too, but nobody confuses it with color. Brighter more vibrant color would most definitely be an improvement, quite visible, even to the untrained eye. This is just as true with a still as with a video. Producers would LOVE to have more gamut to work with. Right now they don't. That will change.
Framerate has nothing to do with color gamut. Nothing. Increase the framerate all you want, and the color won't get any more vibrant.
A higher framerate can, however, help with perceived resolution, choppiness, etc.
First off, Constantine convened the council to settle the Arian heresy. Constantine was hoping for some sort of reconciliation, but nevertheless enforced the council's decision. Shortly thereafter Constantine started switching sides, and by the end of his life he was baptized by an Arian bishop. So, yeah, Constantine convened the council, but he had nothing to do with the outcome.
Second, Nicaea had nothing to do with establishing the canon of Scripture. Nothing Whatsoever. Nada. Zilch. BZZT! try again.
How do I know? First, the only official proceedings from Nicaea were the Nicaean Creed, 20 canons, and a general letter, none of which even mention the canon of Scripture. Go read them if you don't believe me. Seems kind of strange that if they did something as momentous as "write the Bible" that there would be something in here about it. Hmm.
Second, go check the contemporaneous accounts. Not a one of them mentions anything about determining the contents of the Bible. So, let's see. Nothing in the official proceedings. Nothing in the contemporaneous accounts. In fact, Nothing in the Wikipedia article either. Double Hmm...
Why utterly useless? Bluray disks already show banding in some gradients. 16-bit would eliminate that. Wider gamut for movies would give more room for creativity. I don't think it's quite "utterly" useless. Just mostly useless - today.
Here's why: A display like this can be calibrated to more closely capture the xvYCC colorspace. Someday the HD standards may be updated to support 16-bit xvYCC, (HDMI 1.3 already does) which means that your movies will not only be crystal clear 1080p, but will have vibrant color far beyond what is available even at the most high-tech digital theater.
Right now, though, Bluray is 8-bit 4:2:0 color. No where near what this panel can display.
If true, wouldn't that qualify as replication of the Podkletnov effect?
:D
IMHO, the key there isn't superconductivity. It's the rotating magnetic field that is important. But it has to be strong enough and fast enough, so that basically means you need superconductivity to achieve it. Anyway, that's how they do it at Pine Gap.
You don't understand. Mens rea is required in all cases, whatever the crime. It is not specific to murder. It's true for homicide, theft, fraud, etc. It's a foundational principle of law.
Even with the lower standard of homicide, where proof of negligence might be sufficient, mens rea still applies. You have to prove that the offending party was knowingly negligent in such a manner that they know the risk to life and limb.
I'm more than willing to countenance that corporations like Ford are getting special treatment. But the nature of a corporation is that it is a legal fiction. It cannot be accused of murder or homicide. A corporation cannot serve a prison term. Only a real person can be accused of murder. You would need to carry in an engineer, a CEO, etc., who would be a flesh-and-blood person whom you could accuse of willful negligence, etc. Thus, for example, the justice department did not prosecute Enron, but Ken Lay.
Only strange if the Eastern church has a monopoly on the term. As I said, it's a well-established term.
If you believe that Ford motor company has the intent to commit murder, you are welcome to your opinion, however illogical it may be.
And I thought I was a conspiracy theorist.
Is that the best you can do? c6gunner was way better at insulting me than you are, and I hardly felt it then. Tsk, tsk.
Oh, and always happy to amuse, but the term has a fairly well established meaning that probably would be too confusing to get into with you.
Ah, well. To each his own.
So, that would be you.
This is fun. What else do you have?
Umm, wrong
Little Greenies They're all just little greenies.
You are evidently more than welcome to belittle and offend anyone who holds a shred of religious faith, and you will no doubt be modded up, because this is Slashdot, after all. But heaven forbid that any part of a well-established theory be called into question. That's just heresy, and anyone doing it should be burned.
I'm just sayin'...
For the record, as an ID'er (which of course, means that I am a Neanderthal ooga-booga sun worshipper, somewhat below a monkey in intelligence), I am rather embarrassed at what passes for science among Creationists these days, particularly when they use material that they just do not understand.