That's technically incorrect... you don't withdraw the fuel rods. You lower the control rods. With modern reactors it's very hard to have them melt down as many will scram automatically if outside of set parameters. That and there is always ways to inject material into the primary coolant loop that will greatly impede fission esentially killing the reactor until it is flushed out. I can't go into very much detail on any of it but I served on one of those US underwater nuclear power plants for a number of years.
As a submariner I have a serious lack of space to take books with me. My palm loaded with a large library makes so much more sense than trying to pack everything in a rack that's a few inches deep and the size of a sleeping pad. I don't like the cost of ebooks. An ebook doesn't cost them anything so why not sell it for half the cost? I hate paying the same amount that I would for a paperback. I would buy so many more if they would lower the cost. That and why should I pay $300 for a dedicated ebook reader when the ebooks cost the same as the paperbacks! Now I read a lot so if they dropped the price of the books to a dollar or two then I may be able to justify the cost of the reader, but until then I'm going to laugh at Sony and their overpriced gadget.
My job requres a clearance and while I do agree that the goverment overclassifies many things but I totally agree with them protecting intel sources. Things like that put people's lives on the line and if an enemy knows about them then they can evade them and another 9/11 can happen.
I've always found if funny that if an average joe says something secret he gets fined and put in jail, but if a senator leaks a major secret nothing is done to them... dual standards? I think so.
A lot of our energy problem comes from the good ole USA. We have the bigger better faster mentality drilled into our head and people love big gas guzzling SUVs and trucks. We have solutions that would help reduce fuel usage but things like that usually end up being bought by the oil companies to prevent it from cutting into their profit margin. We need to change our attitude and start looking at more fuel efficient vehicles that don't cost an arm and a leg.
Well as I work with AUVs when I can install this AI and give it a mission and have it complete everything on it's own while solving problems and making tactical choices to operate on a much greater level than we're now capable of... then I'll push the "I BELIEVE" button. I'm sure the military would have already scooped this up and used it for AUV, UAV, and UGVs if it were on the true AI level.
That's another interesting question... if my vehicle I work on has AI and is part of the chain of command, should we give it a rank?:P
I'd like to see the numbers for online advertising. I personally never find much interest in ads other than an irritation that gets blocked. Then of course there is the bane of pop ups and pop under ads that drive you nuts at times.
I'm in the opposit situation. Windows requires a ton of driver disks on floppies that hardly anyone uses anymore but Ubuntu installs fine. It was fast with the default install but after I recompiled the kernel for my processor and SMP and trimmed off drivers I don't need it leaves the XP pro install that was on the same computer in the dust wondering what the hell just shot past it.
Ah! The nose has it!
"You digging for gold?"
"No, just some spinal replacment tissue."
"So gold then."
"Yeah, you could put it that way, though with the medical system it's worth twice it's weight and then some."
Lets get down to the real issue people. Those "indecent" channels are too expensive, some almost half of what my cable bill is. The FCC needs to do something about that! *grumbles about a prude America and censorship*
It's great that we keep hearing about these things and we know they're out there with some great PS3 demos but all of this comes down to the point that I'm tired of hearing about them until I can turn on my cell workstation. The news I want is the workstation release!
I'm certain it will violate the EULA for the 360 but they don't hold much legal power anymore as fair use allows you freedom to do what you want with your machine. I know more than a few people who considered it an evil act to mod my old Xbox and PS2, but I'm very well within my legal right to do so.
It means a compay is being honest about developement status. It takes time to make quality software. Thought I still don't believe Windows ME was anything more than an alpha status:P The company is basically saying this is their software, there's bugs in it, help us make it better by giving your feedback.
I'm in the military myself and I can understand some monitoring in the age of terrorism. I also like my privacy and take steps to protect it. The problem is to find a balance between invasiveness for security and privacy. Do we need to monitor everything, no. If someone displays certain behaviors? Maybe. You can always use encryption to protect your privacy but then again using encryption is one of those things that may get you watched. Companies already monitor internet traffic and if you encrypt everything they're going to likely demand that you let them read it anyway which is their right as you're using their resources. The only way we can change this is to use the rights we have to fight it politically. If we just sit idly the next thing you know there will a little floating camera that follows you around 24/7 (a little much yes, but it's to prove a point) You have to be active to help prevent it otherwise you have no right to complain when it happens.
Any topic that has Microsoft vs Linux is bound to start a flame war. I use both and I admit that I'm not fond of Microsoft because of some of their practices, historical software stability, virus threat, and spyware but I'm stuck with it bacause I'm a gamer. I use linux on my workstation and while I do enjoy playing with it I've had my troubles that have made me wish for a more unified installer across the linux front then there is dependancy hell to deal with which is ok if you have something like apt-get or yum but sucks when something goes wrong. The community around linux is great but I admit that the elitists annoy me. Who really cares that you use such and such distro and can do all of this stuff if you can't get over yourself and answer a simple question rather than offer a snide remark. It all comes down to using what works for you and what you like while dealing with the problems of that OS.
"Hello, I'm your local war correspondent covering the latest in Microsoft fanboy, Linux zealot warfare." Explosions and machinegun fire in the background. "Early in the battle it seemed to be fairly balanced until the M$ camp seemed to be getting ill as the battle went on, succumbing to the latest in viral warfare and spyware infestation. The linux camp, as expected was immune."
This is turning into a M$ fanboy vs. M$ antifanboy thread. Stop and take a look at the facts. Microsoft wanted to be first and wanted to release it in time for the Christmas buying season. We all know what happens when you rush software or hardware to market. There's bound to be a few bugs. We don't even really know the extent of the faulty units because a good percentage of units bought will go under Christmas trees. Now I admit that I am not a fan of Microsoft, but I'm ust laying out facts. It is admittedly going to be an issue to replace the faulty units because of demand being so high. It's one of the top gifts for Christmas after all.
Just remeber to blow on the disk and jiggle it as you turn the unit on with just the right touch on the power switch. Ah, the original Nintendo, those were the days.
The key thing here is not to use IE. That seems to come up a lot, wonder if that is a hint that a multibillion dollar company with an army of programmers can't manage to write a good browser while an open source browser has had less problems, but by no means no problems just not problems that let people take control of your computer thats all.
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That's technically incorrect... you don't withdraw the fuel rods. You lower the control rods. With modern reactors it's very hard to have them melt down as many will scram automatically if outside of set parameters. That and there is always ways to inject material into the primary coolant loop that will greatly impede fission esentially killing the reactor until it is flushed out. I can't go into very much detail on any of it but I served on one of those US underwater nuclear power plants for a number of years.
This is great news now they need to sequence a cat and make me a cat girl! :-3 (the no hammerspace option please)
As a submariner I have a serious lack of space to take books with me. My palm loaded with a large library makes so much more sense than trying to pack everything in a rack that's a few inches deep and the size of a sleeping pad. I don't like the cost of ebooks. An ebook doesn't cost them anything so why not sell it for half the cost? I hate paying the same amount that I would for a paperback. I would buy so many more if they would lower the cost. That and why should I pay $300 for a dedicated ebook reader when the ebooks cost the same as the paperbacks! Now I read a lot so if they dropped the price of the books to a dollar or two then I may be able to justify the cost of the reader, but until then I'm going to laugh at Sony and their overpriced gadget.
My job requres a clearance and while I do agree that the goverment overclassifies many things but I totally agree with them protecting intel sources. Things like that put people's lives on the line and if an enemy knows about them then they can evade them and another 9/11 can happen. I've always found if funny that if an average joe says something secret he gets fined and put in jail, but if a senator leaks a major secret nothing is done to them... dual standards? I think so.
A lot of our energy problem comes from the good ole USA. We have the bigger better faster mentality drilled into our head and people love big gas guzzling SUVs and trucks. We have solutions that would help reduce fuel usage but things like that usually end up being bought by the oil companies to prevent it from cutting into their profit margin. We need to change our attitude and start looking at more fuel efficient vehicles that don't cost an arm and a leg.
Well as I work with AUVs when I can install this AI and give it a mission and have it complete everything on it's own while solving problems and making tactical choices to operate on a much greater level than we're now capable of... then I'll push the "I BELIEVE" button. I'm sure the military would have already scooped this up and used it for AUV, UAV, and UGVs if it were on the true AI level. That's another interesting question... if my vehicle I work on has AI and is part of the chain of command, should we give it a rank? :P
Hi, my name is Chayak... and I'm an internet addict... but I'm not... really... FINE I AM ARE YOU HAPPY NOW! *sob* lol
I'd like to see the numbers for online advertising. I personally never find much interest in ads other than an irritation that gets blocked. Then of course there is the bane of pop ups and pop under ads that drive you nuts at times.
And in other news Apple has announced it's next generation computers will run on the AMD platform
I'm in the opposit situation. Windows requires a ton of driver disks on floppies that hardly anyone uses anymore but Ubuntu installs fine. It was fast with the default install but after I recompiled the kernel for my processor and SMP and trimmed off drivers I don't need it leaves the XP pro install that was on the same computer in the dust wondering what the hell just shot past it.
What! Jimmy Hoffa! that's where he's been all these years!
Ah! The nose has it! "You digging for gold?" "No, just some spinal replacment tissue." "So gold then." "Yeah, you could put it that way, though with the medical system it's worth twice it's weight and then some."
Lets get down to the real issue people. Those "indecent" channels are too expensive, some almost half of what my cable bill is. The FCC needs to do something about that! *grumbles about a prude America and censorship*
It's great that we keep hearing about these things and we know they're out there with some great PS3 demos but all of this comes down to the point that I'm tired of hearing about them until I can turn on my cell workstation. The news I want is the workstation release!
I'm certain it will violate the EULA for the 360 but they don't hold much legal power anymore as fair use allows you freedom to do what you want with your machine. I know more than a few people who considered it an evil act to mod my old Xbox and PS2, but I'm very well within my legal right to do so.
Woo bionic hands... where is my neural jacks!
I put my AMD sticker that came with my X2 processor on my girlfriend's *cough* "toy"
It means a compay is being honest about developement status. It takes time to make quality software. Thought I still don't believe Windows ME was anything more than an alpha status :P The company is basically saying this is their software, there's bugs in it, help us make it better by giving your feedback.
I'm in the military myself and I can understand some monitoring in the age of terrorism. I also like my privacy and take steps to protect it. The problem is to find a balance between invasiveness for security and privacy. Do we need to monitor everything, no. If someone displays certain behaviors? Maybe. You can always use encryption to protect your privacy but then again using encryption is one of those things that may get you watched. Companies already monitor internet traffic and if you encrypt everything they're going to likely demand that you let them read it anyway which is their right as you're using their resources. The only way we can change this is to use the rights we have to fight it politically. If we just sit idly the next thing you know there will a little floating camera that follows you around 24/7 (a little much yes, but it's to prove a point) You have to be active to help prevent it otherwise you have no right to complain when it happens.
Any topic that has Microsoft vs Linux is bound to start a flame war. I use both and I admit that I'm not fond of Microsoft because of some of their practices, historical software stability, virus threat, and spyware but I'm stuck with it bacause I'm a gamer. I use linux on my workstation and while I do enjoy playing with it I've had my troubles that have made me wish for a more unified installer across the linux front then there is dependancy hell to deal with which is ok if you have something like apt-get or yum but sucks when something goes wrong. The community around linux is great but I admit that the elitists annoy me. Who really cares that you use such and such distro and can do all of this stuff if you can't get over yourself and answer a simple question rather than offer a snide remark. It all comes down to using what works for you and what you like while dealing with the problems of that OS.
"Hello, I'm your local war correspondent covering the latest in Microsoft fanboy, Linux zealot warfare." Explosions and machinegun fire in the background. "Early in the battle it seemed to be fairly balanced until the M$ camp seemed to be getting ill as the battle went on, succumbing to the latest in viral warfare and spyware infestation. The linux camp, as expected was immune."
Oh great, not in addition to all the oil changes, engine treatments and tune ups I have to worry about termites too!
This is turning into a M$ fanboy vs. M$ antifanboy thread. Stop and take a look at the facts. Microsoft wanted to be first and wanted to release it in time for the Christmas buying season. We all know what happens when you rush software or hardware to market. There's bound to be a few bugs. We don't even really know the extent of the faulty units because a good percentage of units bought will go under Christmas trees. Now I admit that I am not a fan of Microsoft, but I'm ust laying out facts. It is admittedly going to be an issue to replace the faulty units because of demand being so high. It's one of the top gifts for Christmas after all. Just remeber to blow on the disk and jiggle it as you turn the unit on with just the right touch on the power switch. Ah, the original Nintendo, those were the days.
Hrm, rushing a product to market... M$ engineering.... no, this doesn't surprise me at all
The key thing here is not to use IE. That seems to come up a lot, wonder if that is a hint that a multibillion dollar company with an army of programmers can't manage to write a good browser while an open source browser has had less problems, but by no means no problems just not problems that let people take control of your computer thats all.