GUI systems that were not designed for network transparency work very well on remote terminals. See RDP. I have used both extensively and Terminal Services is simply better, without qualification, for the administration use case. It also works extremely well for a large subset of desktop applications.
Welding network transparency into the heart of the GUI system imposes serialization complexity and overhead. The recent history of X development is a series of workarounds to overcome this. When the overhead, complexity and workarounds can't be suffered then X is abandoned; see Android, arguably the most successful Linux platform ever.
The Linux desktop would work better with a thin, efficient, reliable, kernel controlled display server for local GUI applications. An optimized screen scraper (ah la RDP) could provide more than sufficient GUI fidelity for administration. If the two were developed together such that the display server provided hints to optimize the screen scraper the result would be superior.
Not a recent phenomenon either; that ratio has been consistent for years. Please don't take my word for it; the data is right there for you to investigate (and then discount/ignore.)
The most abundant element in the universe is Hydrogen. Silicon, while plentiful in raw form, must be purified, crystallized, doped, etc. for use in microelectronics. This is an expensive, energy intensive process with less than perfect yield. Copper and aluminum are vastly easier to deal with.
So, you'd rather support trying it out, consequences be damned?
The parent said nothing of "trying it out" and only mentioned research. The person that advocated "trying it out" is your straw man to which you then attribute indifference where it does not exist; "you disagree therefore you don't care about the environment!"
As I read it, it is not research that is being banned
What part of "limit research" did you fail to understand?
You didn't really fail to understand it did you? Thought police deserve a free pass as on behalf of "the environment." Environmental catastrophe might be preferable to being ruled by enviros like you.
Buy Adobe for mobile? Is there an Adobe phone I haven't seen? Has Adobe developed a successful phone/pad OS I'm not aware of? What, pray-tell, does Adobe have in mobile?
Perhaps this is about Flash. Silverlight must not be meeting expectations... Anyhow, few care about Flash in mobile, really. Both iPhonePad and Android are succeeding largely without it. Vector graphics and playing movies are solved problems.
The only company with a credible counter to Apple's iPhonePad is Google, and Microsoft can't afford to buy Google. I really can't imagine how you rationalize what would be the huge purchase cost of Adobe on the basis of 'battle against apple' in the 'mobile phone' market when Adobe brings so little to the table.
Anyhow, go buy Flash if you want Ballmer. HTML5 trumps all that nonsense anyhow. Canvas is already better than flash because it's not a plug-in. I've used WebM/VP8 with ffmpeg and it works fine and looks great. The only reason these new tools haven't replaced the legacy stuff is lack of motivation. Perhaps Microsoft will provide it.
You can't buy the Internet Ballmer. It doesn't like you.
It would really, really help if we'd explain to my conservative friends just what "Net Neutrality" is.
Conservative here. Net Neutrality: 'common carrier' status for bandwidth providers. Prevent content producers and carriers from colluding to impose the 'cable TV' model to the Internet. I have no difficulty understanding what is meant by 'net neutrality.' I'm all for it. Markets work best when clearly drawn lines create a horizontal supply chain.
The National Broadband Plan (the basis of the Waxman and whitehouse proposal) is, however, mostly a redistribution scheme of new taxes on consumers to fund the 'under served' and its army of FCC lawyers. The actual 'net neutrality' part is so limited and weak that it is of no consequence. 'Wireless' is altogether exempt, for instance. It does not apply 'common carrier' status. It does not attempt to delineate between carriers and content; COMCASTDISNEY Inc. or SOUTHWESTBELLTIMERWARNER Inc. are not precluded.
Your 'conservative friends' aren't in power. The president isn't a conservative and the House and Senate are not held by conservatives. If your agenda requires greater majorities than what you've had since '08 you need to rethink your agenda because you will never have the necessary majorities. That last sentence is crucial and deserves your consideration.
Oh, and weasel words such as 'extreme polarization' and 'anti-incumbent' are MSM code for 'Democrats losing.'
What does this say about reactor safety system design?
Nothing, because the entire scenario (adjust parameters...meltdown) is a fiction that exists exclusively inside your head.
The reactor is a Russian PWR that follows contemporary design principles and has parity with western reactors. The ECCS is not subject to the exclusive control of vulnerable PLCs. Safety systems aren't networked together in Ethernet broadcast domains waiting for stuxnet infections. Worst case; control rods can be inserted manually and feedwater/HPCI/LPCI pumps activated manually regardless of the state of any given PLC. The manual controls on these safety systems are deliberately simple for a reason.
Maybe a really clever attack designed to confuse operators into making the wrong decisions (see TMI-2 1979) could produce core damage. This still isn't some containment free RMBK graphite bomb reactor like Chernobyl. Contained PWR designs are more forgiving; they don't contaminate things even when they do melt down.
Another way to put that is "so much for the 4.25 to 1 trade imbalance." That ratio has improved since 2008 because the US consumer is broke. It was much higher (5.2:1) and will bounce back if our economy recovers.
The bulk of our exports to China are agricultural. This drives up commodity prices for the US consumer.
Pat Doyle is correct; he has been sold out. The US doesn't protect its markets and workforce. When the US eventually inflicts a carbon tax on itself petroleum refining will move to Asia and the tankers arriving in Texas and Alaska will be filled with gas and diesel in place of crude. More US workers sold out.
Exporting our pollution to Asia is NIMBYism, not environmentalism.
I know civics education in this country is complete shit, but I do seem to recall something about how we afford people the presumption of innocence until they are proven guilty in a court of law. For all we know, this woman is behind manufacturing accusations against Assange so that she can step in.
Wikileaks isn't a government and may associate or not with whomever they wish on whatever (otherwise legal) terms they wish. Assange can sue if he doesn't like it. Stop conflating the obligations of a private entity with government.
His life is going to be forever altered
Assange stepped in front of this train. Don't ask me to admire him for his 'courage' and then invoke my sympathy when he gets wrapped around the gears he chose to fuck with, whether it's the US government, a pair of sexy wenches he put the wood to or some exposed collaborator now being skinned alive in the dust of Afghanistan. These are the stakes he chose to play with and if he survives it all his reward will be vast; another bright spark making his play.
I am not willing to ever assume guilt whatsoever.
No, you'll just blindly advocate. No matter what. Just like the many advocates of this guy:
I used to think the same thing, but then I realized something.
This thought occurred to me around 8, while I was sitting in grade school observing some students diligently studying while others screwed around. The difference is upbringing. I am certain a hundred well behaved kids in a leaky barn with a brand new teacher and fifty tattered copies of a twenty year old algebra text would annihilate whatever that half billion dollar monument to public sector corruption will produce. Diligent, responsible parents is all it would take.
We pay for Taj Mahal schools, crazy lavish teacher union pensions, tenured wages at double private sector income levels, book rackets, etc. and we get pitiful results. Let us continue to ignore the one factor no politician, no teacher union representative or anyone else is going to mention publicly; parents.
US parents (both, almost universally) are too busy paying off education debt while leveraging their next 30 years of earnings to get into the McMansion and simultaneously covering a part (the rest being public debt) of the 44% of GDP being spent by government to fund the teachers union contract wages, lifetime heath-care and 9/10 full pay pension benefits.
Somehow the kids get forgotten... I can't imagine why.
being how they are the first in the world in being green
but this used to be true
When did it change, because I'm still hearing folks claim that 'the US is falling behind green China?' Are they talking about the same car buying, coal guzzling, smog breathing, reactor building, dustbowl China we are?
Some half-smart knob is now going to chime in with per-capita this and per-capita that. If there was any doubt that China is climbing the same consuption curve then this nine-day traffic jam dominated by six-month old cars should dispell it. Your per-capita argument has a big fat expiration date.
You do know China is doing a really strong push into renewable energy?
I know this claim is mantra among the MSM and green propagandists. I know it is also claimed that China just passed the US in coal consumption as well.
I know the factories that replace those shutdown won't be subject to 'environmental impact' analysis.
This is characterized as as 'energy crackdown' by the NYT. It actually looks as though older, indigenous facilities are being swept aside to make room for capital that is presently pouring into China. Relative to China the west is hostile to business so the capital is going to China. They are making room. I guess you could instead pretend this is motivated by some wise energy policy... if you're really naive.
There is no EPA in China. There is no OSHA. Unionizers get beaten. Manufacturers are exempt from tax until two years of profitability have occurred. You let us know when you're interested in adopting those policies where you live, mkay?
I find it funny that republicans say they are always "for" the little guy, yet net neutrality is some kind of boogyman amongst them, waiting to come and murder their children.
Having suspicions about the party of Hollywood and its DCMA turning the Internet into a regulatory plaything can't possibly be legitimate. It's just inbred "hypocrisy," or something.
Not wanting your bandwidth bill doubled to fund more redistributionist bullshit for "the poor" isn't a real concern. It's just these "weird" Republicans.
New Internet regulation isn't going to be limited to making life wonderful for Pojut. It's going to come with a lot of baggage. Copyright baggage. Class warfare baggage. Your concern, the thing you think of as Net Neutrality i.e. not allowing content producers and bandwidth providers to collude the Internet into a second incarnation of cable TV, is a vanishingly small part of it.
Franken's mention of this aspect of Internet regulation is a Slashdot headline precisely because of its rarity. That should tell you something. But it won't. You're swimming in the cool-aid.
Law educations in government subsidized schools, with government backed student loans... Afterward, charge whatever the market will bear to hell with civilization. Those who practice law have an inherent responsibility to the civilization that chooses to respect it. Today the neglect of that responsibility manifests itself as indifference toward bankrupting all the non-lawyers.
This will sort itself; the western world is rapidly bankrupting itself and when the ride finally stops there will be little patience for contemporary "law" and it's self-serving ways.
Secondly, I really don't see the average family owning 4 or 5 50" plasma televisions
It doesn't take much of a skeptic to spot 'green' advocate bullshit. 4-5 plasmas? wtf? What percentage of 3 bed US households have 5x ~300W plasmas burning hours on end? That has to be a vanishingly small fraction of households.
Cnet's 'energy efficiency guide' puts 'average plasma' TV power level at 301W. 5x of those is 1.5KW, not 2KW. Even their basic math is bullshit.
Coal powered cars will likely need to charge for MUCH longer than people will be watching the 5x plasmas. A person with a job or going to school might watch 1-3h of TV a day. Your coal powered car's battery will be baking all freaking night.
Finally, most households have >1 car. That's 4+KW, not 2.
Greeny bullshit. You just see so much bullshit from these people it's hard to even consider anything they have to say.
Replacing petrol with electricity for transportation to any degree that might be considered significant while maintaining parity with present commuting and travel behavior is going to require a MASSIVE build out of power generation. Greeny bullshit can't fix that.
Looks like the guy is running Eclipse. Is his app written in Java?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flex_Builder
Adobe Flex/Flash Builder is an Eclipsed based IDE for developing Flex/Flash applications. Yes, Adobe is using Eclipse for this. The compiler is written in Java. Try to keep up please.
applications they produce aren't native to ANY platform.
The applications aren't for people that agonize over the appearance and behavior of their desktop window manager and widget toolkit; people like you. The target audience understands two interfaces; touch screen smart phone and web browser. If you confine yourself to that regime and author apps using cross platform tools you get access to the largest possible audience; everybody. Everybody doesn't care if it looks like OS-X or Win7 or Gnome or something else. They just don't care. Read that last sentence again and again till it sinks in.
Look at GTK+. The applications work fine on Windows and OS X but you can tell within a second
Perhaps you're reading this using Firefox, in Windows even, as are many of the people that spend time on Slashdot? GTK's widgets haven't doomed Firefox to failure has it? What widgets are used in the myriad flash video players that millions of people seem to have no difficulty with each and every day? What widget toolkit is Gmail based on?
The minute details of appearance and behavior of desktop widgets don't matter to iPhone/iPad developers, xbox developers, ps3 developers, Android developers and they haven't ever mattered to web developers. What vanishingly small fraction of developers are left to care about you and your keen widget sensitivity?
Your 'dead' characterization in interesting, if confusing. For other readers I'll point out that Vermont Yankee, the 'dead' reactor the parent is discussing, is operating today. By 'dead' I suppose the parent means zombie-like.
Vermont isn't likely to get a replacement reactor under any circumstances. The state is very hostile toward industry generally, and nuclear power in particular. Vermont's governor can't wipe his ass without the resident enviros investigating it.
The license extensions + uprates of these old reactors is a huge failure waiting to happen. Whatever renaissance nuclear power is experiencing is going to end abruptly when one of these uprated, license extended reactors takes a TMI style dump and evacuates some part of a state.
Shut Vermont Yankee down and buy your power from other states/countries. Or sit in the dark and shiver. Whatever. Just stop running your decaying old zombie reactor.
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keep network transparency
GUI systems that were not designed for network transparency work very well on remote terminals. See RDP. I have used both extensively and Terminal Services is simply better, without qualification, for the administration use case. It also works extremely well for a large subset of desktop applications.
Welding network transparency into the heart of the GUI system imposes serialization complexity and overhead. The recent history of X development is a series of workarounds to overcome this. When the overhead, complexity and workarounds can't be suffered then X is abandoned; see Android, arguably the most successful Linux platform ever.
The Linux desktop would work better with a thin, efficient, reliable, kernel controlled display server for local GUI applications. An optimized screen scraper (ah la RDP) could provide more than sufficient GUI fidelity for administration. If the two were developed together such that the display server provided hints to optimize the screen scraper the result would be superior.
but I don't think there is much evidence that [Democrats] have closer ties to the megacorps that actually own the studios
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?cycle=2010&ind=B02
Time Warner $20,266,434 88% (D) 11% (R)
Walt Disney Co $11,643,166 68% (D) 31% (R)
Vivendi $4,682,771 66% (D) 32% (R)
Sony Corp $338,730 80% (D) 19% (R)
DreamWorks SKG $198,500 100% (D) 0% (R)
Warner Music Group $178,600 88% (D) 12% (R)
TV / Movies / Music overall 2010: 73% (D) 23% (R)
Not a recent phenomenon either; that ratio has been consistent for years. Please don't take my word for it; the data is right there for you to investigate (and then discount/ignore.)
the most abundant element in the universe?
The most abundant element in the universe is Hydrogen. Silicon, while plentiful in raw form, must be purified, crystallized, doped, etc. for use in microelectronics. This is an expensive, energy intensive process with less than perfect yield. Copper and aluminum are vastly easier to deal with.
Kids, pay attention, this is how wars get started.
Bring it. We're good at large scale warfare. The US is in desperate need of a genuine knock down, drag out fight anyhow.
And yeah, if they'll have me I will fight. Better than rotting in the decaying wasteland of Hope and fucking Change (tm).
So, you'd rather support trying it out, consequences be damned?
The parent said nothing of "trying it out" and only mentioned research. The person that advocated "trying it out" is your straw man to which you then attribute indifference where it does not exist; "you disagree therefore you don't care about the environment!"
As I read it, it is not research that is being banned
What part of "limit research" did you fail to understand?
You didn't really fail to understand it did you? Thought police deserve a free pass as on behalf of "the environment." Environmental catastrophe might be preferable to being ruled by enviros like you.
Buy Adobe for mobile? Is there an Adobe phone I haven't seen? Has Adobe developed a successful phone/pad OS I'm not aware of? What, pray-tell, does Adobe have in mobile?
Perhaps this is about Flash. Silverlight must not be meeting expectations... Anyhow, few care about Flash in mobile, really. Both iPhonePad and Android are succeeding largely without it. Vector graphics and playing movies are solved problems.
The only company with a credible counter to Apple's iPhonePad is Google, and Microsoft can't afford to buy Google. I really can't imagine how you rationalize what would be the huge purchase cost of Adobe on the basis of 'battle against apple' in the 'mobile phone' market when Adobe brings so little to the table.
Anyhow, go buy Flash if you want Ballmer. HTML5 trumps all that nonsense anyhow. Canvas is already better than flash because it's not a plug-in. I've used WebM/VP8 with ffmpeg and it works fine and looks great. The only reason these new tools haven't replaced the legacy stuff is lack of motivation. Perhaps Microsoft will provide it.
You can't buy the Internet Ballmer. It doesn't like you.
It would really, really help if we'd explain to my conservative friends just what "Net Neutrality" is.
Conservative here. Net Neutrality: 'common carrier' status for bandwidth providers. Prevent content producers and carriers from colluding to impose the 'cable TV' model to the Internet. I have no difficulty understanding what is meant by 'net neutrality.' I'm all for it. Markets work best when clearly drawn lines create a horizontal supply chain.
The National Broadband Plan (the basis of the Waxman and whitehouse proposal) is, however, mostly a redistribution scheme of new taxes on consumers to fund the 'under served' and its army of FCC lawyers. The actual 'net neutrality' part is so limited and weak that it is of no consequence. 'Wireless' is altogether exempt, for instance. It does not apply 'common carrier' status. It does not attempt to delineate between carriers and content; COMCASTDISNEY Inc. or SOUTHWESTBELLTIMERWARNER Inc. are not precluded.
Your 'conservative friends' aren't in power. The president isn't a conservative and the House and Senate are not held by conservatives. If your agenda requires greater majorities than what you've had since '08 you need to rethink your agenda because you will never have the necessary majorities. That last sentence is crucial and deserves your consideration.
Oh, and weasel words such as 'extreme polarization' and 'anti-incumbent' are MSM code for 'Democrats losing.'
What does this say about reactor safety system design?
Nothing, because the entire scenario (adjust parameters...meltdown) is a fiction that exists exclusively inside your head.
The reactor is a Russian PWR that follows contemporary design principles and has parity with western reactors. The ECCS is not subject to the exclusive control of vulnerable PLCs. Safety systems aren't networked together in Ethernet broadcast domains waiting for stuxnet infections. Worst case; control rods can be inserted manually and feedwater/HPCI/LPCI pumps activated manually regardless of the state of any given PLC. The manual controls on these safety systems are deliberately simple for a reason.
Maybe a really clever attack designed to confuse operators into making the wrong decisions (see TMI-2 1979) could produce core damage. This still isn't some containment free RMBK graphite bomb reactor like Chernobyl. Contained PWR designs are more forgiving; they don't contaminate things even when they do melt down.
Kiribati looks to make the ultimate sacrifice by mid-century, when much of the country is projected to be largely uninhabitable
They are being awarded mighty enviro kudos for 'closing' their fishing territory AFTER they have migrated elsewhere.
I am curious how those of the UK will react
Those of the UK will assert that this is the result of US corporate media interests controlling the UK government.
Anything else I can help you with?
we need to make some room for Win7 Phone fans here
How many Windows 7 Phone fans attended the Win7 PhoneFest in 2011?
Both.
So much for our EXPORTS.
Another way to put that is "so much for the 4.25 to 1 trade imbalance." That ratio has improved since 2008 because the US consumer is broke. It was much higher (5.2:1) and will bounce back if our economy recovers.
The bulk of our exports to China are agricultural. This drives up commodity prices for the US consumer.
Pat Doyle is correct; he has been sold out. The US doesn't protect its markets and workforce. When the US eventually inflicts a carbon tax on itself petroleum refining will move to Asia and the tankers arriving in Texas and Alaska will be filled with gas and diesel in place of crude. More US workers sold out.
Exporting our pollution to Asia is NIMBYism, not environmentalism.
I know civics education in this country is complete shit, but I do seem to recall something about how we afford people the presumption of innocence until they are proven guilty in a court of law. For all we know, this woman is behind manufacturing accusations against Assange so that she can step in.
Wikileaks isn't a government and may associate or not with whomever they wish on whatever (otherwise legal) terms they wish. Assange can sue if he doesn't like it. Stop conflating the obligations of a private entity with government.
His life is going to be forever altered
Assange stepped in front of this train. Don't ask me to admire him for his 'courage' and then invoke my sympathy when he gets wrapped around the gears he chose to fuck with, whether it's the US government, a pair of sexy wenches he put the wood to or some exposed collaborator now being skinned alive in the dust of Afghanistan. These are the stakes he chose to play with and if he survives it all his reward will be vast; another bright spark making his play.
I am not willing to ever assume guilt whatsoever.
No, you'll just blindly advocate. No matter what. Just like the many advocates of this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
I used to think the same thing, but then I realized something.
This thought occurred to me around 8, while I was sitting in grade school observing some students diligently studying while others screwed around. The difference is upbringing. I am certain a hundred well behaved kids in a leaky barn with a brand new teacher and fifty tattered copies of a twenty year old algebra text would annihilate whatever that half billion dollar monument to public sector corruption will produce. Diligent, responsible parents is all it would take.
We pay for Taj Mahal schools, crazy lavish teacher union pensions, tenured wages at double private sector income levels, book rackets, etc. and we get pitiful results. Let us continue to ignore the one factor no politician, no teacher union representative or anyone else is going to mention publicly; parents.
US parents (both, almost universally) are too busy paying off education debt while leveraging their next 30 years of earnings to get into the McMansion and simultaneously covering a part (the rest being public debt) of the 44% of GDP being spent by government to fund the teachers union contract wages, lifetime heath-care and 9/10 full pay pension benefits.
Somehow the kids get forgotten... I can't imagine why.
being how they are the first in the world in being green
but this used to be true
When did it change, because I'm still hearing folks claim that 'the US is falling behind green China?' Are they talking about the same car buying, coal guzzling, smog breathing, reactor building, dustbowl China we are?
Some half-smart knob is now going to chime in with per-capita this and per-capita that. If there was any doubt that China is climbing the same consuption curve then this nine-day traffic jam dominated by six-month old cars should dispell it. Your per-capita argument has a big fat expiration date.
You do know China is doing a really strong push into renewable energy?
I know this claim is mantra among the MSM and green propagandists. I know it is also claimed that China just passed the US in coal consumption as well.
I know the factories that replace those shutdown won't be subject to 'environmental impact' analysis.
This is characterized as as 'energy crackdown' by the NYT. It actually looks as though older, indigenous facilities are being swept aside to make room for capital that is presently pouring into China. Relative to China the west is hostile to business so the capital is going to China. They are making room. I guess you could instead pretend this is motivated by some wise energy policy... if you're really naive.
There is no EPA in China. There is no OSHA. Unionizers get beaten. Manufacturers are exempt from tax until two years of profitability have occurred. You let us know when you're interested in adopting those policies where you live, mkay?
Should I run the DEFCON presenter's giant SWF or not?
o_O
most employment...
...has been shipped to China.
Thanks for playing, USA.
Your decline won't end in a nice environmentally sustainable hippydom either. Alchys and neglect are your future. Detroit, writ large.
Happy Friday.
So far, it's been a scorcher for folks all around the world.
released a report revealing 2010 having the record for warmest June, warmest April to June and warmest year to date
I thought weather is not climate.
I remember hearing that a lot in 2009. Don't hear it so much this year, for some reason.
I find it funny that republicans say they are always "for" the little guy, yet net neutrality is some kind of boogyman amongst them, waiting to come and murder their children.
Having suspicions about the party of Hollywood and its DCMA turning the Internet into a regulatory plaything can't possibly be legitimate. It's just inbred "hypocrisy," or something.
Not wanting your bandwidth bill doubled to fund more redistributionist bullshit for "the poor" isn't a real concern. It's just these "weird" Republicans.
New Internet regulation isn't going to be limited to making life wonderful for Pojut. It's going to come with a lot of baggage. Copyright baggage. Class warfare baggage. Your concern, the thing you think of as Net Neutrality i.e. not allowing content producers and bandwidth providers to collude the Internet into a second incarnation of cable TV, is a vanishingly small part of it.
Franken's mention of this aspect of Internet regulation is a Slashdot headline precisely because of its rarity. That should tell you something. But it won't. You're swimming in the cool-aid.
Lawyers get a degree before...
Law educations in government subsidized schools, with government backed student loans... Afterward, charge whatever the market will bear to hell with civilization. Those who practice law have an inherent responsibility to the civilization that chooses to respect it. Today the neglect of that responsibility manifests itself as indifference toward bankrupting all the non-lawyers.
This will sort itself; the western world is rapidly bankrupting itself and when the ride finally stops there will be little patience for contemporary "law" and it's self-serving ways.
Secondly, I really don't see the average family owning 4 or 5 50" plasma televisions
It doesn't take much of a skeptic to spot 'green' advocate bullshit. 4-5 plasmas? wtf? What percentage of 3 bed US households have 5x ~300W plasmas burning hours on end? That has to be a vanishingly small fraction of households.
Cnet's 'energy efficiency guide' puts 'average plasma' TV power level at 301W. 5x of those is 1.5KW, not 2KW. Even their basic math is bullshit.
Coal powered cars will likely need to charge for MUCH longer than people will be watching the 5x plasmas. A person with a job or going to school might watch 1-3h of TV a day. Your coal powered car's battery will be baking all freaking night.
Finally, most households have >1 car. That's 4+KW, not 2.
Greeny bullshit. You just see so much bullshit from these people it's hard to even consider anything they have to say.
Replacing petrol with electricity for transportation to any degree that might be considered significant while maintaining parity with present commuting and travel behavior is going to require a MASSIVE build out of power generation. Greeny bullshit can't fix that.
Looks like the guy is running Eclipse. Is his app written in Java?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flex_Builder
Adobe Flex/Flash Builder is an Eclipsed based IDE for developing Flex/Flash applications. Yes, Adobe is using Eclipse for this. The compiler is written in Java. Try to keep up please.
applications they produce aren't native to ANY platform.
The applications aren't for people that agonize over the appearance and behavior of their desktop window manager and widget toolkit; people like you. The target audience understands two interfaces; touch screen smart phone and web browser. If you confine yourself to that regime and author apps using cross platform tools you get access to the largest possible audience; everybody. Everybody doesn't care if it looks like OS-X or Win7 or Gnome or something else. They just don't care. Read that last sentence again and again till it sinks in.
Look at GTK+. The applications work fine on Windows and OS X but you can tell within a second
Perhaps you're reading this using Firefox, in Windows even, as are many of the people that spend time on Slashdot? GTK's widgets haven't doomed Firefox to failure has it? What widgets are used in the myriad flash video players that millions of people seem to have no difficulty with each and every day? What widget toolkit is Gmail based on?
The minute details of appearance and behavior of desktop widgets don't matter to iPhone/iPad developers, xbox developers, ps3 developers, Android developers and they haven't ever mattered to web developers. What vanishingly small fraction of developers are left to care about you and your keen widget sensitivity?
Not enough to worry about.
Your 'dead' characterization in interesting, if confusing. For other readers I'll point out that Vermont Yankee, the 'dead' reactor the parent is discussing, is operating today. By 'dead' I suppose the parent means zombie-like.
Vermont isn't likely to get a replacement reactor under any circumstances. The state is very hostile toward industry generally, and nuclear power in particular. Vermont's governor can't wipe his ass without the resident enviros investigating it.
The license extensions + uprates of these old reactors is a huge failure waiting to happen. Whatever renaissance nuclear power is experiencing is going to end abruptly when one of these uprated, license extended reactors takes a TMI style dump and evacuates some part of a state.
Shut Vermont Yankee down and buy your power from other states/countries. Or sit in the dark and shiver. Whatever. Just stop running your decaying old zombie reactor.