Comment Re:You know your economy is dysfunctional when (Score 2, Insightful) 156
CyberTuner is $1,400.
$1,400 for a tuning app? That's an expensive FFT.
CyberTuner is $1,400.
$1,400 for a tuning app? That's an expensive FFT.
Wow. I mean, really, BFW. What are they going to do? Monitor my viewing habits? Record me sitting on my couch? Geez they must live boring lives if *mine* is of any interest.
Do you have shades or curtains in your house?
Why?
What are they going to do? Monitor your eating habits? Record you on the toilet? Geez, they must live boring lives if yours is of any interest.
I call bullshit on that one.
They claim a 42,225 mm^2.
That's over 4 dm^2, a rectangle 20 cm x 20 cm, roughly 7 in x 7 in.
And the biggest available wafer only sports 64,000 mm^2.
So it cannot be a single chip. Now they may packages a bunch of smaller chips into a single package, but that's been done before and is much less impressive. It cannot be the largest chip ever built. Possibly the largest number of chips in a single package, but they lost all cred at this stage.
I Google'd "deaths per terawatt" and found this: https://www.statista.com/stati...
But that's paywalled...
Non-paywalled data is at https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...
I would have pasted it here, but:
Filter error: Please use less whitespace.
Go filter!
Being afraid of a terrorist attack on a nuclear plant is an unreasonable fear. A nuclear reactor isn't a nuclear bomb. Suppose they actually access the plant, how are they suppose to turn it into an actual cataclysmic event? The amount of logistic, knowledge and luck required to turn it into an actual threat is higher than many other alternatives.
Are you so sure?
What if someone blew up the primary loop pumps and emptied or blew up the cooling pools?
That's 2 bombs and then you have an uncooled pressure cooker full of fissile material and other nasty fission byproducts in a place that's become out of reach because of the massive radioactivity from the uncovered used fuel.
It may not go full Tchernobyl, but it definitely may go Fukushima-style.
This fear of a terrorist attack on a nuclear plant is again largely exagerrated and fed by the anti-nuclear activists. They want the mass to perceive the nuclear plants as a perpetual, constant and actual threat against the human kind.
Agreeing with you here.
Feed&Breed / [*] Cooling the reactor core by feeding and breeding
I certainly hope they're talking about feed and bleed.... There no need breeding any more isotopes at this point.
Wow, Slashdot is lame, I pasted some japanese characters and slashdot does not render them properly. They are where the [*] is.
They *TRY* to emit a specific wavelength, but after time and use, that wavelength shifts, and that specific filter becomes useless.
I was about to call bullshit on this one, but you are in fact right.
Diode Laser Frequency Stabilisation, courtesy of UTK & Google.
in an enclosed space with recirculated air?
Air in airplanes is not recirculated. That's a myth.
There are compressors taking fresh (and warmed up) air from the engines air flow and send it to the cabin. The excess air is bled of a relief valve.
Then configure CookieSafe to "Deny Cookies Globally" (you can easily make exceptions for some sites). BetterPrivacy and TrackMeNot come with suitable defaults.
With this set-up, no cookies will be created. DOM Storage (super-cookies) and flash cookies will be wiped whenever you close your browser. And you will gently spam Google and other search engines with random searches, just in case they do tracking by IP addresses.
You may also want to throw in:
Whatever may be the reason, on most of the paper, his calculations and figures are in the obsolete CGS system (Centimeter, Grams, Seconds). Forces are in dynes, pressures in g/cm^2, etc.
And then you see later in the paper Amperes and Watts (which are SI units).
CGS and SI (or MKS) don't mix.
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if it could cover my whole couch
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...then you would fry your balls. Not that it matters here on
Not a good idea...
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.