...Other than ossified government and environmentalist thinking.
There is NO technical reason to design or build modern day nuclear plants as idiotically unsafe as the ones from the 50s and 60s.
There is NO reason to NOT develop thorium plants which are inherently safer (As both the Chinese and Indians are doing).
And while renewables won't even come close to saving our bacon, I'd rather have them than nothing, which is looking more and more likely as we near the end of energy positive, affordable hydrocarbons.
The problems are not ones of safety. On the political side, nobody is willing to take risks on technology which they are frankly too stupid to understand. Ditto for techno-peasant environmentalists. We've effectively cock-blocked ourselves from solving this problem.
Making $5/hr when I live in a country with a cost structure designed for someone making $50/hr. Yeah, sure. How could I turn *that* offer down. And of course, only millenials matter for cybersecurity jobs. Can't hire those 50+ guys. No way. Even if there are lots of them looking for work.
1) Done Hardware IT (built desktops and modified servers) 2) Technical Support (Phone and desktop) 3) Technical Writing 4) Software coding and implementation 5) Software design and configuration 6) Budgeting and purchasing of IT equipment 7) Server Administration (VMWare) 8) Virtual machine creation, management and deployment. 9) Management of a software QA department
What this shows, other than the fact that I don't seem to be able to keep a job for very long, is that my psychology degree has served me well in ways I never expected.
I've also had to hire quite a number of CS graduates who drove me absolutely up a wall because they didn't seem to be able to *do* anything to completion. They were task oriented (Install the card) rather than goal oriented (Make sure the network on the computer is working well, the user can log in, see the directories they need to see, and everything is fast enough to matter). Someting I would have done automatically. I discovered that I had to ALWAYS explain the *goal* first, or I'd have to send them back to complete everything.
Developers may have experienced problems earlier and alerted Microsoft before it went live." Duh, you think? Only a Microsoft exec would be dumb enough to think otherwise.
Windows 8.x is back, and this time, it's personal.
Or it feels that way. I've been working with the Windows 8.1 RTM. Many more things seem to break on the Windows 8.1 RTM that did on Windows 8. Mayhem ensued. Kiss your SQLE 2005 goodbye if you haven't already. Change your Setup.exe's to Vista compatibility if you don't want them to take an hour to install. Other than that, no worries.
I mean, fusion power, when and if it ever works, will be beyond nifty, however, the world has quite a bit of inexpensive thorium, working plants have already been built in the USA and are currently being build in China and India. Moreover, thorium fission, since it won't continue unless actively driven by a fissile material, is inherently safer. Meltdowns are essentially impossible.
Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? It's not that I'm against R&D or fusion power, per se. I'm just not sure what the point of emphasizing fusion power technology is compared to thorium.
Look, organically produced hydrocarbons, whether from poop, algae or [insert plant of your choice], are still either directly or indirectly dependent on the sun as an energy collector. As such, they are simply inefficient solar energy collection devices that produce a chemical as their output.
All still require infrastructure, water, sunlight and land, which would otherwise be used for human cropland or to support a natural ecology.
So, this might be great for something about the scale of a farm where the outputs weren't being put to any use, but don't expect to significantly add to civilization's energy budget.
They grew and decided they needed to hire some newly minted MBAs, accountants and an HR department.
Almost immediately, anyone who did *productive* work was either passively ignored or actively punished for doing anything innovative or productive, while the aforementioned business school parasites determined how best to extract any remaining value in the company and place it into their personal bank accounts before moving on the the next victim.
But of course, that's just a guess. I mean, how often have any of us seen *that* happen?
Quite so, but that neutrino detector just won't fit my office. Oh, sure, I could drill down a mile or so and put it there, right beside my secret lair, but Oooooh, no. "Too noisy," the wife says. "Clicky, clicky, clicky," she says. "All that damned scintillation," she says.... What's a fellow to do?
When IBM couldn't compete in the PC arena, they abandoned it, and concentrated on services and heftier servers. They changed their market space, but in an intelligent way. Microsoft's attempt to be a devices company is doomed. Too little and way too late. They own the desktop space, where tablets will never reach. They should retain that focus. Their cloud offerings too, are viable. If they created an expanded virtualized application store for significant business apps like they do with office, opened it to all platforms (not just asp and wpf developers) and charged not too much for a monthly subscription (e.g. like Netflix), they might continue to dominate a significant part of the business software space.
I guess it's the part that says, "Whoa! Way far away from the sun! Better add a *lot* more light mylar reflective surface area to focus on relatively tiny solar panel to maintain sufficient energy."
Not only can I read, but I can add too.
Obviously there are limits to this strategy too. Maneuvering attitude of a multitude of mirrors is probematic since they too require energy, and distance is distance. Once you get far enough away, there's just not much energy to play with, but you should be able to maintain systems for quite a while.
The sun is an overly bright star and why would you have a singular parabolic mirror rather than a few hundred or thousand smaller mirrors with automated attitude adjustment to keep them focused on the space craft and provide a robust redundancy?
I've had the distinct lack of pleasure working with the Windows 8.1 RTM for the past two days. Virtually none of our apps installed correctly the first time, including Visual studio 2010. At one point, a large "help" dialog appeared telling me to swipe in from the left hand side. I couldn't get rid of this thing for love or money. Did I mention it covers about 1/4 of the screen and that you basically have to reboot to get rid of it?
To state the blindingly obvious, interface changes without any significant feature changes are not a value add, they're a value subtract. It doesn't matter if it's the Windows GUI, ASP.net or Powershell.
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There is NO technical reason to design or build modern day nuclear plants as idiotically unsafe as the ones from the 50s and 60s.
There is NO reason to NOT develop thorium plants which are inherently safer (As both the Chinese and Indians are doing).
And while renewables won't even come close to saving our bacon, I'd rather have them than nothing, which is looking more and more likely as we near the end of energy positive, affordable hydrocarbons.
The problems are not ones of safety. On the political side, nobody is willing to take risks on technology which they are frankly too stupid to understand. Ditto for techno-peasant environmentalists. We've effectively cock-blocked ourselves from solving this problem.
as just mean spirited, bureaucratic and bad tempered. Why else would we have been warned against landing?
when you have a captive audience and quality control is not exactly an important issue.
Making $5/hr when I live in a country with a cost structure designed for someone making $50/hr. Yeah, sure. How could I turn *that* offer down. And of course, only millenials matter for cybersecurity jobs. Can't hire those 50+ guys. No way. Even if there are lots of them looking for work.
In my career, I have:
1) Done Hardware IT (built desktops and modified servers)
2) Technical Support (Phone and desktop)
3) Technical Writing
4) Software coding and implementation
5) Software design and configuration
6) Budgeting and purchasing of IT equipment
7) Server Administration (VMWare)
8) Virtual machine creation, management and deployment.
9) Management of a software QA department
What this shows, other than the fact that I don't seem to be able to keep a job for very long, is that my psychology degree has served me well in ways I never expected.
I've also had to hire quite a number of CS graduates who drove me absolutely up a wall because they didn't seem to be able to *do* anything to completion. They were task oriented (Install the card) rather than goal oriented (Make sure the network on the computer is working well, the user can log in, see the directories they need to see, and everything is fast enough to matter). Someting I would have done automatically. I discovered that I had to ALWAYS explain the *goal* first, or I'd have to send them back to complete everything.
Developers may have experienced problems earlier and alerted Microsoft before it went live."
Duh, you think? Only a Microsoft exec would be dumb enough to think otherwise.
Windows 8.x is back, and this time, it's personal.
Or it feels that way. I've been working with the Windows 8.1 RTM. Many more things seem to break on the Windows 8.1 RTM that did on Windows 8. Mayhem ensued. Kiss your SQLE 2005 goodbye if you haven't already. Change your Setup.exe's to Vista compatibility if you don't want them to take an hour to install. Other than that, no worries.
I mean, fusion power, when and if it ever works, will be beyond nifty, however, the world has quite a bit of inexpensive thorium, working plants have already been built in the USA and are currently being build in China and India. Moreover, thorium fission, since it won't continue unless actively driven by a fissile material, is inherently safer. Meltdowns are essentially impossible.
Could someone please tell me what I'm missing here? It's not that I'm against R&D or fusion power, per se. I'm just not sure what the point of emphasizing fusion power technology is compared to thorium.
Look, organically produced hydrocarbons, whether from poop, algae or [insert plant of your choice], are still either directly or indirectly dependent on the sun as an energy collector. As such, they are simply inefficient solar energy collection devices that produce a chemical as their output.
All still require infrastructure, water, sunlight and land, which would otherwise be used for human cropland or to support a natural ecology.
So, this might be great for something about the scale of a farm where the outputs weren't being put to any use, but don't expect to significantly add to civilization's energy budget.
They grew and decided they needed to hire some newly minted MBAs, accountants and an HR department.
Almost immediately, anyone who did *productive* work was either passively ignored or actively punished for doing anything innovative or productive, while the aforementioned business school parasites determined how best to extract any remaining value in the company and place it into their personal bank accounts before moving on the the next victim.
But of course, that's just a guess. I mean, how often have any of us seen *that* happen?
Quite so, but that neutrino detector just won't fit my office. Oh, sure, I could drill down a mile or so and put it there, right beside my secret lair, but Oooooh, no. "Too noisy," the wife says. "Clicky, clicky, clicky," she says. "All that damned scintillation," she says.... What's a fellow to do?
You meant "tachyons," No?
Spineless writers and editors of the poorly written articles at Popsci can't handle criticism. Lawyers peddled justification.
Such was tried at Yahoo. And didn't *that* work out well?
When IBM couldn't compete in the PC arena, they abandoned it, and concentrated on services and heftier servers. They changed their market space, but in an intelligent way. Microsoft's attempt to be a devices company is doomed. Too little and way too late. They own the desktop space, where tablets will never reach. They should retain that focus. Their cloud offerings too, are viable. If they created an expanded virtualized application store for significant business apps like they do with office, opened it to all platforms (not just asp and wpf developers) and charged not too much for a monthly subscription (e.g. like Netflix), they might continue to dominate a significant part of the business software space.
Android: the system you use while waiting for Windows to boot.
This really bugs me.
Especially when discussing inflation 5 years out.
And we'll want a spy in your organization to make sure you don't spy on us.
that it will be impossible to find any significant meaning in my facebook posts.
I guess it's the part that says, "Whoa! Way far away from the sun! Better add a *lot* more light mylar reflective surface area to focus on relatively tiny solar panel to maintain sufficient energy."
Not only can I read, but I can add too.
Obviously there are limits to this strategy too. Maneuvering attitude of a multitude of mirrors is probematic since they too require energy, and distance is distance. Once you get far enough away, there's just not much energy to play with, but you should be able to maintain systems for quite a while.
The sun is an overly bright star and why would you have a singular parabolic mirror rather than a few hundred or thousand smaller mirrors with automated attitude adjustment to keep them focused on the space craft and provide a robust redundancy?
why a square mile of reflective mylar and a high efficiency panel won't power a satellite for a good long while?
Or does anyone else think "plasmonic nanostructures" would be a great name for a band?
Dimension of us never got around.....
I've had the distinct lack of pleasure working with the Windows 8.1 RTM for the past two days. Virtually none of our apps installed correctly the first time, including Visual studio 2010. At one point, a large "help" dialog appeared telling me to swipe in from the left hand side. I couldn't get rid of this thing for love or money. Did I mention it covers about 1/4 of the screen and that you basically have to reboot to get rid of it?
To state the blindingly obvious, interface changes without any significant feature changes are not a value add, they're a value subtract. It doesn't matter if it's the Windows GUI, ASP.net or Powershell.
Got Microsoft stock? Sell.