But then I confess ignorance as to how much CPU power it takes to encode video at, say, full 1080p/24
A lot. 1080P on a Core2Duo running 3.17Ghz, with H.264 you are looking at 3-5 FPS at medium quality and using both cores, the i5's didn't get significantly ( read us-ably, they are faster ) faster, and I doubt the i7's did either.
With H.264 the more cores the better, you get roughly 60-80% speedup per core added. This translates to higher quality encodes at realtime if you start throwing more cores at the encoder.
Does everyone need this? Hell no, but to those of us that could use more cores it would be awesome. As an added bonus think of a render farm of these used for movies, things that took a year to render on hundreds of single / dual core machines could be done in days or weeks on the same number of machines.... or you could just go with smaller networks of render boxes making it easier to manage.
In principle it looks promising, but then some problems occur. Solutions to these problems are proposed, but it gets much more expensive, then even more problems appear,...
Yeah, shits expensive, lets just keep dumping money into "clean" coal and natural gas... you know, the more finite resources we are burning through for power generation right now. What happens when nat gas / coal reserves start to run out and prices start to sky-rocket? We are going to wish we had invested in the "too expensive" alternate technology then.
HD4000 in my i5 runs FF14 at the lower range of the highest settings damn near 30FPS, an thats with PhysX at the highest settings for both characters and NPCs, @ 1366x768. I could easily get 40+ FPS by dropping quality down to medium / medium low, but it wouldn't look near as nice, and it is more than smooth enough as it stands.
Not too shabby for a non-gaming intended laptop, especially when ATI / AMD has bitten everyone in the ass with their "equivalent" laptop GPUs that shit the bed and couldn't run anywhere near what the the same gen desktop boards did.
but would it kill you just to give a hint of what Jolla and Sailfish are?
Maybe the editor has a slightly higher reading comprehension level?
If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices, is Jolla going to let individual users to install the Sailfish operating system on the Android devices that they already have?
Now the only thing left is what is Jolla, and it is obvious that it something to do with Android devices.
Don't forget cheap as dirt next day shipping, for the things I have used it on so far, being a prime member takes 1 day shipping from $14+ to like $1-3.
When taking that into account the prime membership pays for itself after a few purchases, plus you get your stuff quite a bit faster. Oh yeah, and you get free video services to boot.
Linux has crap adoption outside of open source circles precisely because there is no (seemingly) standardized desktop for business.
Each business can set its own standards for what desktop provides the tools their employees need.
That would be a training nightmare. One reason Windows, and to some degree OS/X is popular in business is that it's literally "train once at the first place you work for"; after that the only "training" needed for new hires with experience is showing them which icons they need to click on are.
Contrast that to the way things would have to be one if business adopted Linux, with each having a customized desktop, you would have to do much more in depth training for each new hire. Where does company X think the list of applications(start menu) should go? Are shortcut icons allowed on the desktop? If not, where do I find the launchers for email / browser / text editor / ETC?
KDE gets tons a flak for being a "Windows clone UI", yet that is what many, if not most, of new users will be used to. The design is sound, it has a proven track record of a decade plus. There is always room for improvement, as long as the improvement doesn't detract from the base.
So what's so hard about having to do it in 4-5 clicks total?
Click activities, click the one that says something like "Desktop with icons" activity[*] right click "K" menu, click "use old style menus" click "K" menu > settings > system settings click the either desktop or appearance icon ( I forget which the compositing stuff is under ). ?????? Done, AKA profit.
[*] at least for 4.10.x there is a desktop w/ icons activity, not sure when that one was introduced.
I really don't understand what you are arguing for or against. Volcanic eruptions are not something new, there are hundreds to thousands every year, just as there has been since the Hadean. They range from little burps of gas to the big ones like in your second link.
Most of them that you listed are located on the arcs surrounding subduction zones, with at least one other for sure ( Eyjafjallajokull ) on a rifting zone. Rifting causes decompression, subduction causes volatiles to be added, both producing melts. There is a reason all of those ( I don't recognize any hotspot volcanoes like we have in Hawaii on the list off hand ) are on the ring of fire, it's where most of the volcanism is located for exactly the reasons I just listed.
In some ways you are correct. Depressurization is one of the 3 big ways to generate a melt (magma). Just in case you wonder, the other two ways are 1:simply add heat, and 2: add volatiles such as H2O or CO2.
But the isostatic rebound being fast enough for us to see it in our lifetime is highly doubtful, same with the resulting melt travel time to possible eruption. What they are seeing now most likely is melt from more than just a few years ago.
Yeah, CPU wise it's pretty much the same, the i5-4200U gains maybe 2-6% on the i5-3230M.
As for screen real-estate I didn't see the 1080P, and even then it is not worth the extra money. For ~$100 and 1 extra pound you can get a second USB monitor @15" and the same res as your laptop for a mobile dual screen setup. Dual screen would be more useful, especially at the sizes we are talking about.
As for the HDD, what the hell are you going to do with 128GB, carry around an external drive everywhere too? There goes your weight benefits. If carrying an extra 1-2 pounds is going to kill you, you have some pretty serious health problems and really should spend the money on a Doctor / gym membership... There also is no reason to need SSD performance when coding into terminals / eclipse, other than e-peen bragging rights.
It still has less RAM, the only thing the dell may have going for it is a better keyboard, but they don't show it in the pics. The Lenovo unfortunately has the same chiclet keyboard every manufacturer has gone braindead and decided was a good idea. It's not bad, just not as good as non-chiclet keyboards. One advantage the Lenovo has over the Dell, from what I can see, is the full num-pad. That may not be important to some people, but for what I do it is very useful.
As for the ignoring the "non-trivial" differences, as I said SSD that small is useless, and while 1080P / fullHD may be nice is not necessary, and may even be a bitch to read depending on how the font scaling / sizing is set up. You could argue over power usage and battery life, but realistically, for development you should be sitting in one spot, not wandering around with no access to power, so could plug it in 99% of the time making the power savings both from the CPU and the SSD ( which I can't see being all that much more than a properly set up spinning disk; maybe minutes, maybe 1/4 hour? ) a moot point. So yeah, still way overpriced.
The support? Would a developer really need that? 1 year of support is not worth $500
It sure as hell isn't the specs, you can get a Lenovo ( or HP equivalent ) g500s touch ($550-600ish, either keep the 6GB RAM or spend $60 for 16GB upgrade) as a mobile dev platform for ~1/2 the price. All you have to do is install Ubuntu / Debian / whatever on it - and I would hope devs can do this simple task- and pretty much everything works OOTB. This includes the touchscreen, video card ( with one annoying caveat currently, you need to adjust the backlight up from 0 when booting, after/dev gets fully populated), and all other hardware.
I'm not going to argue with you on your math since it is a sunday night and I have been drinking... but I will point out several things.
One, for specifics, I was talking about the continental U.S. which is comprised mostly of granitic, not basaltic rock (or we would be sitting quite a bit lower than we are), hence the larger geothermal gradient in the west where the the pacific plate is subducting under the N.A. plate.
And two, when I say geothermal gradient at depths of 9km+ we are talking at least 400-600C at ~40,600km by ~2,900km as a heat sink ( circumference by depth to core mantle boundary ) as a heatsink. As you go deeper you also get hotter adding to your available heatsink.
If you think we are going to cool the crust, lithosphere, and mantle to the core in a few short years you may want to check your math again. We would be hard pressed to remove as much heat in a year as a volcano does in one single eruption....
The reason is quite simply we don't have the technology to reach the gradients worth tapping since most of the areas with a high enough accessible geothermal gradient are national parks ( U.S. anyways). If we could drill to 9-12km we could literally power the entire U.S. with the geothermal gradient of one western state. It then becomes a simpler problem of updating the infrastructure for distribution.
As for the cooling of hot springs, the amount of heat removed is so insignificant as to be immeasurable. You lose more heat to the surrounding crust than what can be extracted for power production. Even with removing 40-60C from water and pumping it back it will barely affect the temp of magma chambers (generally many km^3 ) / geothermal gradients (pretty much the same temp around the globe at the same depths) by 0.0000000001C or less / year.
Actually you can't directly compare Fukushima to the radiation released by coal combustion. Most of the radio-nucleotides released from Fukushima were I(131) and Cs(137) with half-lives of 7 days and 30 years respectively.
Compare that to the release of coal plants: U(238) and Th(232) which have half-lives of 4.47GA and 14GA ( GA is billion years ). While doing this we can see that coal combustion releases particles that are much longer lived so stay building up in environments. Compared to Fukushima, from which most of the Iodine is decayed already added to the fact that the Cs will be decayed to harmless levels within the next 100-200 years it is quite obvious that coal is putting out both more ( when looked at from coal combustion total over the years, not just from power plant combustion, although it is arguable for just power combustion as well ) and longer lasting radioisotopes when we look at the remaining and forecast-ed radiation graphs comparing them.
One could argue about the radiation from Chernobyl, as that contained parts of the core - at least near the reactor building itself - but that can and should be considered an outlier. It was a study in both piss poor management as well as how not to design and run a reactor. You will notice that in the relatively few accidents newer western designed reactors have had that none of them have had the cores open to atmosphere even after a partial or even complete meltdown.
This also does not take into account all the other pollutants released by burning coal, the fuels burned in mining and transport of the coal to where it is burned, or the environmental cost of the mining of the coal itself (many more tons of coal / year is required VS. tons of nuclear fuel) . When factored against the nuclear waste ( which can be reprocessed at least partially now, and should be looked into better reprocessing in the future ) coal is several orders of magnitude worse than nuclear.
Does this make nuclear "good"? No, it just makes it, environmentally, overall a better choice than coal. Are there even better alternatives? Probably, at least until we can get into much higher efficiency with our nuclear fuels.
Microsoft: It will randomly decide to launch, the guidance system will crash, and even if it does get to it's destination there is no warhead because this was only a "premium" version of Weapons of Mass Destruction.... you have to purchase the "Ultimate" version to get the payload. Also, you might as well just go home, it's been exploited several times already and six other countries are currently fighting for control of it since the exploit patch isn't due out until the next patch Tuesday.
Gentoo: Whenever the hell your missile finally compiles without error you have a small window of time to launch where it will get to target milliseconds faster than any other missile giving you bragging rights... Until you realize you forgot an important USE flag and have to revdep-rebuild world.
Debian: Your ICBM may have been built some time in the cretaceous period, but damn if it doesn't just keep humming along rock solid and stable. If you are lucky newer missile tech can be back-ported. You could get gutsy and upgrade to testing to have the newest missile tech while still remaining as stable as your competitors "stable" releases, or you could go with missile "sid" but run the risk of pieces of your missile going missing on your daily upgrade.
Except that people don't agree on what the requirements are. Your requirements are not the same as mine. Even people that share requirements may not agree on what is the best solution. Your proposal will likely lead to this [xkcd.com].
Not really. If we standardized everything ( or at least as much as humanly possible) similar to LSB it would make support of specialized distros much easier. Then it would all come down to who uses what standard modular configurations and / or provides the best support.
As an added bonus devs could not only write once but only have to worry about what particular package extension the program is packed in. If you know for a fact that lib X is going to be named exactly X and is in directory C you can just put out RPMs / DEBs that will install on any system using those types of packages.... as it is now, Ubuntu names things slightly differently than Debian / Mint / Other derivatives and you have to tweak the packages to install on each system. It would save a LOT of time if distro maintainers didn't have to customize the installs of thousands of different packages.
Uhhh, don't know where you have been the last few years but VZW uses mini-SIM / micro-SIM in all of the 4G LTE capable phones. I would assume sprint and everyone else offering 4G LTE is the same.
I had to get a SIM from VZW for my S3 and from U.S. Cellular for my GNote2....
They would have had to respond differently if it was a burning oil fuel fire anyways, They would have had to use dry chem on that too since spraying water on it would generally just spread the oils around.
Think of it more as a HTPC that can basically play networked games instead of just streaming media content. You can throw a lower powered HTPC type setup in your living room and play games on it while sitting in comfort on your couch while your higher powered ( read - generally noisier ) gaming rig in the other room does the heavy lifting.
Then again, it may well be that you don't want to go super low powered on the HTPC box since the way they are talking at least some newer games are targeting the Linux based steamOS natively.
All in all, I will definitely be watching the release. It should at the very least be interesting to see what they ship back upstream, not to mention how big name game support will affect the adoption of Linux. Another area of interest is how they will support the OS; how quickly will new hardware be supported, how quickly will cards be deprecated ( looking at ATI / AMD who as of right now like to drop support much much quicker than NVidia ).
Well you definitely need to go to the zoo for the Gorilla translation. I'm sorry, I can't afford to smash my head into a wall until I'm as stupid as you.
Please do have a good day sir, the stupid ones are always the happiest; you have that to look forward to.
No, yours is just off the wall knee-jerk bullshit.
Let's break this down into little words you can understand: Your claim is any device currently running Linux / Embedded Linux right now wouldn't exist in any way shape or form if Linus hadn't made the kernel. My claim is any device currently running Linux / Embedded Linux would have an analogous device running another form of OS / Embedded OS if Linus never existed.
Lets examine a little deeper:
Ok. Now that we have straightened out that little cognitive distortion you were clearly experiencing, lets look back to everything else you wrote, modify it to the present tense, and see if you can still say any of it. Go ahead. I'll wait.
Yes, because clearly all of the Linux based devices just vanished from this world we are in now... and your little hypothetical world wasn't just destroyed by my impeccable logic describing the proper hypothetical world if Linux had not been released.
Here is a hint, what is is not the world your knee-jerk gibberish spouting was trying to proclaim. As a matter of fact your world version was proven that it would not exist, and it is not reality. Want a hint as to why what you are proclaiming as the "real world" is wrong? We have tivo, android et al. Therefore the world you described was not "reality" merely a very poorly thought out hypothetical world.
Allow me to explain how the internet works! Your packets have to get from your machine to the BSD based server or IIS based server and back again. If you could run a cable directly to those servers, you'd be golden, but you can't now can you. That means your data gets handled by Linux even if it is served from a BSD machine to your Windows box.
You must be quite young huh? BBSs and "internet" with routing existed long before Linux was released or even became prevalent in any capacity. Try to do your homework next time.
P.S. Feel free to look up any words you do not understand at HTTP://www.oed.com. If you still can't understand please refer to your local zoo where the gorilla can translate it into the grunts and drooling you need.
Try to use the internet without using his code. Oh wait... you can't.
Well damn it, did netcraft finally confirm *BSD is dead? Did it take IIS and Apple-server with it too?
Call someone to complain that you can no longer use the internet then... that should work! Damn, you or the person you were going to call has an Android phone!
Yeah, because we didn't have either custom phone OSes or WinCE / WinMobile before. Or if in your "non-linux" world Apple wouldn't dominate the phone market... if Apple was the only phone OS maker I'm sure they would license o/sX to anyone who could prove decent hardware compatibility just to grab as much money as possible; app store purchases alone would be astronomical orders of magnitude larger that what they are now.
Better just sit down and watch a show on your TIVO then... aw fuck! You're screwed. May as well go watch a movie... shit! It was shot after 2000... they used Linux to develop it! I guess it is off to go fishing then... nobody has put Linux in a fishing rod yet, but whatever you do don't use a Marine GPS! Those suckers run Linux.
Again WinCE / WinMobile, if you can make a game system that was ahead of its time with WinCE, a phone OS / simple TV recorder is no problem; as PocketPCs / iPAQs had shown it was an adequate OS even if the form factor wasn't the best, it could do much of what most smartphones do now back in the early 2Ks. Not to mention there is plenty of high end video editing software for Windows / Apple and maybe even *BSDs.
So yeah, even without Linux we wouldn't be "internet and phone-less" cut off and adrift at sea. *BSD would have stayed king for servers, and WinCE / osX would be the mobile OSs, and that is only if Google hadn't made Android out of *BSD code because that was what all their servers ran on. Don't get me wrong, Linux is great, it does some tasks a lot better than Windows or Apple, but the world wouldn't end if Linus hadn't decided to make the kernel.
Just because you are a fucking moron doesn't make this a bad deal.
As for the questions bullshit you just spewed, you are probably one of those asshats that has to interrupt the professor 10 times right during the middle of the lecture throwing both him and his other students off stride.
And by the way value is determined exactly by results. It's best results for / time / money / ETC. That means, as we are speaking about here, spending the same amount of time ( either lecture + study at home / in a "boring" library alone or lecture + study in the classroom and ask questions if needed ), for the same amount of money spent, and getting higher avg. grades.
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But then I confess ignorance as to how much CPU power it takes to encode video at, say, full 1080p/24
A lot. 1080P on a Core2Duo running 3.17Ghz, with H.264 you are looking at 3-5 FPS at medium quality and using both cores, the i5's didn't get significantly ( read us-ably, they are faster ) faster, and I doubt the i7's did either.
With H.264 the more cores the better, you get roughly 60-80% speedup per core added. This translates to higher quality encodes at realtime if you start throwing more cores at the encoder.
Does everyone need this? Hell no, but to those of us that could use more cores it would be awesome. As an added bonus think of a render farm of these used for movies, things that took a year to render on hundreds of single / dual core machines could be done in days or weeks on the same number of machines.... or you could just go with smaller networks of render boxes making it easier to manage.
Mysterious problems? That's called malware.
Yeah, because there has never been perfectly legitimate, non malware, driver / explorer shell extensions that misbehaved... ever.
In principle it looks promising, but then some problems occur. Solutions to these problems are proposed, but it gets much more expensive, then even more problems appear, ...
Yeah, shits expensive, lets just keep dumping money into "clean" coal and natural gas... you know, the more finite resources we are burning through for power generation right now. What happens when nat gas / coal reserves start to run out and prices start to sky-rocket? We are going to wish we had invested in the "too expensive" alternate technology then.
HD4000 in my i5 runs FF14 at the lower range of the highest settings damn near 30FPS, an thats with PhysX at the highest settings for both characters and NPCs, @ 1366x768. I could easily get 40+ FPS by dropping quality down to medium / medium low, but it wouldn't look near as nice, and it is more than smooth enough as it stands.
Not too shabby for a non-gaming intended laptop, especially when ATI / AMD has bitten everyone in the ass with their "equivalent" laptop GPUs that shit the bed and couldn't run anywhere near what the the same gen desktop boards did.
but would it kill you just to give a hint of what Jolla and Sailfish are?
Maybe the editor has a slightly higher reading comprehension level?
If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices, is Jolla going to let individual users to install the Sailfish operating system on the Android devices that they already have?
Now the only thing left is what is Jolla, and it is obvious that it something to do with Android devices.
Don't forget cheap as dirt next day shipping, for the things I have used it on so far, being a prime member takes 1 day shipping from $14+ to like $1-3.
When taking that into account the prime membership pays for itself after a few purchases, plus you get your stuff quite a bit faster. Oh yeah, and you get free video services to boot.
Linux has crap adoption outside of open source circles precisely because there is no (seemingly) standardized desktop for business.
Each business can set its own standards for what desktop provides the tools their employees need.
That would be a training nightmare. One reason Windows, and to some degree OS/X is popular in business is that it's literally "train once at the first place you work for"; after that the only "training" needed for new hires with experience is showing them which icons they need to click on are.
Contrast that to the way things would have to be one if business adopted Linux, with each having a customized desktop, you would have to do much more in depth training for each new hire. Where does company X think the list of applications(start menu) should go? Are shortcut icons allowed on the desktop? If not, where do I find the launchers for email / browser / text editor / ETC?
KDE gets tons a flak for being a "Windows clone UI", yet that is what many, if not most, of new users will be used to. The design is sound, it has a proven track record of a decade plus. There is always room for improvement, as long as the improvement doesn't detract from the base.
So what's so hard about having to do it in 4-5 clicks total?
Click activities, click the one that says something like "Desktop with icons" activity[*]
right click "K" menu, click "use old style menus"
click "K" menu > settings > system settings click the either desktop or appearance icon ( I forget which the compositing stuff is under ).
??????
Done, AKA profit.
[*] at least for 4.10.x there is a desktop w/ icons activity, not sure when that one was introduced.
I really don't understand what you are arguing for or against. Volcanic eruptions are not something new, there are hundreds to thousands every year, just as there has been since the Hadean. They range from little burps of gas to the big ones like in your second link.
Most of them that you listed are located on the arcs surrounding subduction zones, with at least one other for sure ( Eyjafjallajokull ) on a rifting zone. Rifting causes decompression, subduction causes volatiles to be added, both producing melts. There is a reason all of those ( I don't recognize any hotspot volcanoes like we have in Hawaii on the list off hand ) are on the ring of fire, it's where most of the volcanism is located for exactly the reasons I just listed.
In some ways you are correct. Depressurization is one of the 3 big ways to generate a melt (magma). Just in case you wonder, the other two ways are 1:simply add heat, and 2: add volatiles such as H2O or CO2.
But the isostatic rebound being fast enough for us to see it in our lifetime is highly doubtful, same with the resulting melt travel time to possible eruption. What they are seeing now most likely is melt from more than just a few years ago.
Disclaimer: Undergrad Geologist, not PhD yet.
Yeah, CPU wise it's pretty much the same, the i5-4200U gains maybe 2-6% on the i5-3230M.
As for screen real-estate I didn't see the 1080P, and even then it is not worth the extra money. For ~$100 and 1 extra pound you can get a second USB monitor @15" and the same res as your laptop for a mobile dual screen setup. Dual screen would be more useful, especially at the sizes we are talking about.
As for the HDD, what the hell are you going to do with 128GB, carry around an external drive everywhere too? There goes your weight benefits. If carrying an extra 1-2 pounds is going to kill you, you have some pretty serious health problems and really should spend the money on a Doctor / gym membership... There also is no reason to need SSD performance when coding into terminals / eclipse, other than e-peen bragging rights.
It still has less RAM, the only thing the dell may have going for it is a better keyboard, but they don't show it in the pics. The Lenovo unfortunately has the same chiclet keyboard every manufacturer has gone braindead and decided was a good idea. It's not bad, just not as good as non-chiclet keyboards. One advantage the Lenovo has over the Dell, from what I can see, is the full num-pad. That may not be important to some people, but for what I do it is very useful.
As for the ignoring the "non-trivial" differences, as I said SSD that small is useless, and while 1080P / fullHD may be nice is not necessary, and may even be a bitch to read depending on how the font scaling / sizing is set up. You could argue over power usage and battery life, but realistically, for development you should be sitting in one spot, not wandering around with no access to power, so could plug it in 99% of the time making the power savings both from the CPU and the SSD ( which I can't see being all that much more than a properly set up spinning disk; maybe minutes, maybe 1/4 hour? ) a moot point. So yeah, still way overpriced.
So, again, what exactly is worth the extra price?
The support? Would a developer really need that? 1 year of support is not worth $500
It sure as hell isn't the specs, you can get a Lenovo ( or HP equivalent ) g500s touch ($550-600ish, either keep the 6GB RAM or spend $60 for 16GB upgrade) as a mobile dev platform for ~1/2 the price. All you have to do is install Ubuntu / Debian / whatever on it - and I would hope devs can do this simple task- and pretty much everything works OOTB. This includes the touchscreen, video card ( with one annoying caveat currently, you need to adjust the backlight up from 0 when booting, after /dev gets fully populated), and all other hardware.
Bah. Wisconsin might not be as far north but our water freezes at 273.15k!
I'm not going to argue with you on your math since it is a sunday night and I have been drinking... but I will point out several things.
One, for specifics, I was talking about the continental U.S. which is comprised mostly of granitic, not basaltic rock (or we would be sitting quite a bit lower than we are), hence the larger geothermal gradient in the west where the the pacific plate is subducting under the N.A. plate.
And two, when I say geothermal gradient at depths of 9km+ we are talking at least 400-600C at ~40,600km by ~2,900km as a heat sink ( circumference by depth to core mantle boundary ) as a heatsink. As you go deeper you also get hotter adding to your available heatsink.
If you think we are going to cool the crust, lithosphere, and mantle to the core in a few short years you may want to check your math again. We would be hard pressed to remove as much heat in a year as a volcano does in one single eruption....
Umm. No.
The reason is quite simply we don't have the technology to reach the gradients worth tapping since most of the areas with a high enough accessible geothermal gradient are national parks ( U.S. anyways). If we could drill to 9-12km we could literally power the entire U.S. with the geothermal gradient of one western state. It then becomes a simpler problem of updating the infrastructure for distribution.
As for the cooling of hot springs, the amount of heat removed is so insignificant as to be immeasurable. You lose more heat to the surrounding crust than what can be extracted for power production. Even with removing 40-60C from water and pumping it back it will barely affect the temp of magma chambers (generally many km^3 ) / geothermal gradients (pretty much the same temp around the globe at the same depths) by 0.0000000001C or less / year.
Actually you can't directly compare Fukushima to the radiation released by coal combustion. Most of the radio-nucleotides released from Fukushima were I(131) and Cs(137) with half-lives of 7 days and 30 years respectively.
Compare that to the release of coal plants: U(238) and Th(232) which have half-lives of 4.47GA and 14GA ( GA is billion years ). While doing this we can see that coal combustion releases particles that are much longer lived so stay building up in environments. Compared to Fukushima, from which most of the Iodine is decayed already added to the fact that the Cs will be decayed to harmless levels within the next 100-200 years it is quite obvious that coal is putting out both more ( when looked at from coal combustion total over the years, not just from power plant combustion, although it is arguable for just power combustion as well ) and longer lasting radioisotopes when we look at the remaining and forecast-ed radiation graphs comparing them.
One could argue about the radiation from Chernobyl, as that contained parts of the core - at least near the reactor building itself - but that can and should be considered an outlier. It was a study in both piss poor management as well as how not to design and run a reactor. You will notice that in the relatively few accidents newer western designed reactors have had that none of them have had the cores open to atmosphere even after a partial or even complete meltdown.
This also does not take into account all the other pollutants released by burning coal, the fuels burned in mining and transport of the coal to where it is burned, or the environmental cost of the mining of the coal itself (many more tons of coal / year is required VS. tons of nuclear fuel) . When factored against the nuclear waste ( which can be reprocessed at least partially now, and should be looked into better reprocessing in the future ) coal is several orders of magnitude worse than nuclear.
Does this make nuclear "good"? No, it just makes it, environmentally, overall a better choice than coal. Are there even better alternatives? Probably, at least until we can get into much higher efficiency with our nuclear fuels.
Your other choices?
Oracle?
Microsoft:
It will randomly decide to launch, the guidance system will crash, and even if it does get to it's destination there is no warhead because this was only a "premium" version of Weapons of Mass Destruction.... you have to purchase the "Ultimate" version to get the payload. Also, you might as well just go home, it's been exploited several times already and six other countries are currently fighting for control of it since the exploit patch isn't due out until the next patch Tuesday.
Gentoo:
Whenever the hell your missile finally compiles without error you have a small window of time to launch where it will get to target milliseconds faster than any other missile giving you bragging rights... Until you realize you forgot an important USE flag and have to revdep-rebuild world.
Debian:
Your ICBM may have been built some time in the cretaceous period, but damn if it doesn't just keep humming along rock solid and stable. If you are lucky newer missile tech can be back-ported. You could get gutsy and upgrade to testing to have the newest missile tech while still remaining as stable as your competitors "stable" releases, or you could go with missile "sid" but run the risk of pieces of your missile going missing on your daily upgrade.
Except that people don't agree on what the requirements are. Your requirements are not the same as mine. Even people that share requirements may not agree on what is the best solution. Your proposal will likely lead to this [xkcd.com].
Not really. If we standardized everything ( or at least as much as humanly possible) similar to LSB it would make support of specialized distros much easier. Then it would all come down to who uses what standard modular configurations and / or provides the best support.
As an added bonus devs could not only write once but only have to worry about what particular package extension the program is packed in. If you know for a fact that lib X is going to be named exactly X and is in directory C you can just put out RPMs / DEBs that will install on any system using those types of packages.... as it is now, Ubuntu names things slightly differently than Debian / Mint / Other derivatives and you have to tweak the packages to install on each system. It would save a LOT of time if distro maintainers didn't have to customize the installs of thousands of different packages.
Uhhh, don't know where you have been the last few years but VZW uses mini-SIM / micro-SIM in all of the 4G LTE capable phones. I would assume sprint and everyone else offering 4G LTE is the same.
I had to get a SIM from VZW for my S3 and from U.S. Cellular for my GNote2....
They would have had to respond differently if it was a burning oil fuel fire anyways, They would have had to use dry chem on that too since spraying water on it would generally just spread the oils around.
Think of it more as a HTPC that can basically play networked games instead of just streaming media content. You can throw a lower powered HTPC type setup in your living room and play games on it while sitting in comfort on your couch while your higher powered ( read - generally noisier ) gaming rig in the other room does the heavy lifting.
Then again, it may well be that you don't want to go super low powered on the HTPC box since the way they are talking at least some newer games are targeting the Linux based steamOS natively.
All in all, I will definitely be watching the release. It should at the very least be interesting to see what they ship back upstream, not to mention how big name game support will affect the adoption of Linux. Another area of interest is how they will support the OS; how quickly will new hardware be supported, how quickly will cards be deprecated ( looking at ATI / AMD who as of right now like to drop support much much quicker than NVidia ).
Well you definitely need to go to the zoo for the Gorilla translation. I'm sorry, I can't afford to smash my head into a wall until I'm as stupid as you.
Please do have a good day sir, the stupid ones are always the happiest; you have that to look forward to.
No, yours is just off the wall knee-jerk bullshit.
Let's break this down into little words you can understand:
Your claim is any device currently running Linux / Embedded Linux right now wouldn't exist in any way shape or form if Linus hadn't made the kernel.
My claim is any device currently running Linux / Embedded Linux would have an analogous device running another form of OS / Embedded OS if Linus never existed.
Lets examine a little deeper:
Ok. Now that we have straightened out that little cognitive distortion you were clearly experiencing, lets look back to everything else you wrote, modify it to the present tense, and see if you can still say any of it. Go ahead. I'll wait.
Yes, because clearly all of the Linux based devices just vanished from this world we are in now... and your little hypothetical world wasn't just destroyed by my impeccable logic describing the proper hypothetical world if Linux had not been released.
Here is a hint, what is is not the world your knee-jerk gibberish spouting was trying to proclaim. As a matter of fact your world version was proven that it would not exist, and it is not reality. Want a hint as to why what you are proclaiming as the "real world" is wrong? We have tivo, android et al. Therefore the world you described was not "reality" merely a very poorly thought out hypothetical world.
Allow me to explain how the internet works! Your packets have to get from your machine to the BSD based server or IIS based server and back again. If you could run a cable directly to those servers, you'd be golden, but you can't now can you. That means your data gets handled by Linux even if it is served from a BSD machine to your Windows box.
You must be quite young huh? BBSs and "internet" with routing existed long before Linux was released or even became prevalent in any capacity. Try to do your homework next time.
P.S. Feel free to look up any words you do not understand at HTTP://www.oed.com. If you still can't understand please refer to your local zoo where the gorilla can translate it into the grunts and drooling you need.
Try to use the internet without using his code. Oh wait ... you can't.
Well damn it, did netcraft finally confirm *BSD is dead? Did it take IIS and Apple-server with it too?
Call someone to complain that you can no longer use the internet then ... that should work! Damn, you or the person you were going to call has an Android phone!
Yeah, because we didn't have either custom phone OSes or WinCE / WinMobile before. Or if in your "non-linux" world Apple wouldn't dominate the phone market... if Apple was the only phone OS maker I'm sure they would license o/sX to anyone who could prove decent hardware compatibility just to grab as much money as possible; app store purchases alone would be astronomical orders of magnitude larger that what they are now.
Better just sit down and watch a show on your TIVO then ... aw fuck! You're screwed. May as well go watch a movie ... shit! It was shot after 2000 ... they used Linux to develop it! I guess it is off to go fishing then ... nobody has put Linux in a fishing rod yet, but whatever you do don't use a Marine GPS! Those suckers run Linux.
Again WinCE / WinMobile, if you can make a game system that was ahead of its time with WinCE, a phone OS / simple TV recorder is no problem; as PocketPCs / iPAQs had shown it was an adequate OS even if the form factor wasn't the best, it could do much of what most smartphones do now back in the early 2Ks. Not to mention there is plenty of high end video editing software for Windows / Apple and maybe even *BSDs.
So yeah, even without Linux we wouldn't be "internet and phone-less" cut off and adrift at sea. *BSD would have stayed king for servers, and WinCE / osX would be the mobile OSs, and that is only if Google hadn't made Android out of *BSD code because that was what all their servers ran on. Don't get me wrong, Linux is great, it does some tasks a lot better than Windows or Apple, but the world wouldn't end if Linus hadn't decided to make the kernel.
Just because you are a fucking moron doesn't make this a bad deal.
As for the questions bullshit you just spewed, you are probably one of those asshats that has to interrupt the professor 10 times right during the middle of the lecture throwing both him and his other students off stride.
And by the way value is determined exactly by results. It's best results for / time / money / ETC. That means, as we are speaking about here, spending the same amount of time ( either lecture + study at home / in a "boring" library alone or lecture + study in the classroom and ask questions if needed ), for the same amount of money spent, and getting higher avg. grades.