Clearly we need to stop using all that water for agriculture and build more data centers. Then we can all just buy groceries from Amazon. Problem solved (that was easy)!

What a terrible way to describe _market competition_ for employees.

Since you are talking about corrosion, I'm going to safely assume you have no idea what you are talking about. Read up on the materials used.

Second, assume that you haven't thought up some new and novel failure scenario in the 30 minutes you've been thinking about it today than the engineers who have been designing and simulating for _years_.

These SMRs are specifically designed so that when things go wrong they fail safe, the reaction stops, no meltdown.

Reality is that demand doesn't only exist when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining.

What provides the base load supply? Ridiculous amount of battery energy storage? Not likely.

Nuclear is an amazing (and necessary) complement to renewables and combined they have a very realistic possibility of completely replacing our current fossil fuel use for energy generation. The SMR design is one of many exciting new designs we should be actively promoting and advancing.

The point isn't to make something maintenance free and 100% guaranteed to never fail. That's not possible. This current design is very good though, as long as you can rely on gravity being constant.

I'm assuming you are asking in good faith versus some of the other posts that have assumed they have found a design flaw with five minute of precursory review that the engineers who have been working on it for years somehow amazingly missed!!...

The answer is that the system is designed to passively shut down and avoid meltdown even if the heat load (electrical generating) portion completely fails. It's pretty cool! Look into it further. Nuclear is a required piece of the puzzle (complementing solar, wind, hydro and other renewables) moving forward.

No. It's Tuesday after all...

But they're walking out, leaving footprints!!

I _might_ feel a little more sorry for Apple, you know, if they actually paid any decent percentage of US taxes.

The problem has always seen to be that Archos is great at designing hardware, and terrible at writing software. That's why this move (for the most part) is being hailed as a step forward. This gives the community the possibility to make great software for these devices.

While your on the subject of the 605 though, that hardware is two generations old. They have completely abandoned software updates for it. Why doesn't Archos produce a similar developer firmware for that generation? With their recent history, they could use all the good-will they can get.

It's important to point out that there is a difference between the Archos 5 Internet Tablet (IT) and the Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet (IMT). The Archos 5 IT is the seventh generation and is the device that runs Android natively. This SDE firmware has not been released for that generation. This Special Developers Firmware was only released for the sixth generation, their older hardware.

Somebody in Archos marketing should definitely be fired.

If you read about the details of the SDE firmware update, it flash-locks the boot0 and boot1 (bootstrap stages) sections of flash, as well as a recovery kernel. So you there is nothing you can do while running the SDE firmware that will permanently brick your Archos device.

Removing the DRM makes sense, and good riddance, says I! But saying it voids your warranty seems like a cop-out to me, especially since this generation has had a pretty high failure rate.

Actually, since they lock the boot0 and boot1 (bootstrap stages) and the recovery kernel, it would be very difficult for somebody to permanently brick their Archos device. As for overheating, I imagine the processor has thermal protection that would keep it from frying itself.

Removing the DRM makes sense, and good riddance, says I!