Comment "ultimately paid by the rest of us?" I doubt it. (Score 1) 249
I'm not a Monsanto/Bayer customer or stockholder, so I'm pretty sure I will not be paying any of their fines or penalties.
I'm not a Monsanto/Bayer customer or stockholder, so I'm pretty sure I will not be paying any of their fines or penalties.
A fair point. I meant they were controlled in the sense that they did what they were designed and intended to do; you're certainly right that there was little containment.
But unless the Fukushima reactors were designed consume more treasure than they ever generated, they are not doing what they were designed to do. They haven't been contained or controlled since the tsunami, and aren't going to be any time soon. They are an ongoing burden on the people who they were supposed to support.
Well, keep in mind significance is relative. You're just stating how you feel.
For example any ocean contamination of any sort is very significant to oceanographers, ichtyologists and fishery managers (and for more than one reason!).
And the opinions of nuke shills are insignificant when contrasted with the expressed views of the world's population, most of which understands that terrestrial fission plants are an unconscionable military vulnerability as well as economically unsupportable without direct government sponsorship.
As you say, the US and Soviet tests were controlled and purposeful.
The Fukushima event appears to be uncontrolled, at least so far. It's an ongoing, active disaster, much like the Centralia Coal Fire.
We could have stopped the Centralia fire at any time by diverting the Susquehanna, but every year we've waited has made that a more economically and environmentally destructive option.
The file upload button is unstylable. People write crazy amounts of browser-specific code to get around this - literally hundreds of lines of code, if you want to work responsively in all current browsers - because every other button can have style applied to it, but file upload buttons can't.
Seriously. Working on trig functions when they haven't finished with buttons yet? That seems really strange to me.
It's Java, right? Tell me it's Java!
My employers have been doing this since roughly the same time period. Because it's obvious. As soon as bar code scanners with ps/2 keyboard in/out jacks came on the market, we had people handling our return mail this way. DB and everything.
Postal service is right and this Hungerpiller rube is a rent-seeker, not an innovator.
The high $$$ PC class machines, like toughbooks and industrial systems, are engineered to be highly resistant to dust infiltration.
I don't think longevity is a design goal for consumer status symbols, though.
If not Mars, where?
Titan, of course.
Mars is an incredibly bad choice. The gravity well makes it expensive to move things in and out, and the lack of magnetic field and high environmental toxicity means you have to live indoors and underground.
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i.e. If you have a PhD you get to judge the quality of accuracy.
Although I've known more than a few brilliant and competent PhDs, some of the most egregiously ignorant people I have ever known - not stupid, but instead purposely and proudly uninformed - also hold doctorates.
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon; the paper certifying expertise does not grant or even prove it.
Are all hammers bad because someone used a sledgehammer to commit murder?
Are all hammers good because someone used a claw hammer to build a house?
Hubble has 4 reaction wheels and 6 gyros, giving it (when they're all working) amazing pointing accuracy.
Two of the gyros were replaced in the first servicing mission.
One of the reaction wheels was replaced in the second service mission.
The third service mission had to be split into two parts - 3A and 3B (I have the 3A mission gimme cap here on my desk) - and 3A replaced all six gyros, as four had failed, including the two replaced during SM1. Having only two gyros caused NASA to rewrite the software, which was originally written to use a minimum of three gyros for science operations.
Service mission 4 installed another set of gyros, intended to last until 2014.
Do you think that if they pull 100T out and burn it, there will be more than 100T in the air?
That is 100% correct.
Without a great deal of additional infrastructure, you can't pull the 100T out of the air without expending energy in ways that will increase the amount of carbon in the air. People gotta drive to work to build and operate the plant, and so forth.
Now, if you do build out the clean infrastructure required, you can do a one-time pollution event (think, for example, of creating solar panels - it's not a pollution free process, but over the lifetime of the panels energy is returned with less pollution than any other available method) instead of an ongoing one.
The guy is talking about something of a few dozen lines of code, and he doesn't simply use a debugger to step through the problematic code?
Oy veh, get off my lawn, you whippersnapper!
Using the same methods I've used since a powerful computer was one that had 8K main memory, I can debug anything. Why would I want to waste time on a limited tool when I already have globally applicable technique?
Learning how to debug on every OS, in every environment, forever, is a lot better use of my time than learning how to use this year's fad debugger/IDE. I can use the time saved to learn the latest fad language, which will be a lot more fun!
Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.