All those embedded costs/carbon/pollution are also present in every energy source, right? Nuclear power is hardly carbon free when you consider the mining and refinement and transportation of the uranium fuel. As for the embedded energy/carbon/pollution in building a nuclear power plant; concrete i...

It's called a package manager and a sane design. ie. Not Windows. Windows is pretty much unique in requiring a reboot for every single update . no, not a package manager. i know what a package manager is. this isnt released under GPL. it's paid-for. it's used for servers so that they minimize their...

Wibla wrote:450 days sounds like a very insecure centos system

I reboot my workstation whenever I need to (usually after an OS update).

there's some program that allows linux users to install and use updates without rebooting the OS. i forget its name, but it saves you the downtime of rebooting.

i don't generally pay attention to it.

i leave the computer up, and reboot it when a patch demands it.

i've system uptimes in the neighborhood of 2-3 months before, but his power cycle, the computer's only been on for 7 days.

this is running windows 7.

I'm all for nuclear energy, it doesn't produce too much waste, is relatively clean, and there is nothing better right now. The only problem is : it is not a renewable energy. it's efficient enough that current known stocks of fissile materials with currently available technology can produce electri...

3 layer sandwich in between 2 layers of aluminum?

they did it! transparent aluminum!


transparent aluminum! wooooooo!



(sorry... if you don't get the reference, re-watch star trek IV :/ )

You have not been following things very closely, then. Yucca Mountain has gone through a long and costly process, and along the way, some data was faked, and in the end, it is all bollocks -- it won't work for safe long term storage of nuclear waste. We have no solution for nuclear waste. Some of i...

NeilBlanchard wrote:Two words about nuclear's long term risk:

Yucca Mountain.

i don't understand what you're getting at.

yucca mountain is a potential site for long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel. so what? it's like a landfill for nuclear fuel.

SST Guy wrote:That's a cool project cordis, and no, we won't be suing individuals that build their own cases with rotated motherboard orientation. I don't think the patent laws cover that far.

though monster cables would sure give it a try.

Be careful with your invectives sir/madam -- someone might take them personally. One might also be wondering if you are afraid of losing the argument, and start name calling/insults as a result? Neil, why waste your time even responding to his/her posts? If ignorant fuckwits were ignored they might...

We are alive because of greenhouse gasses -- and ~43% percent increase of carbon dioxide (one of the main GHG) in just 150 years, when we sat at 275PPM for 10,000 years is a substantial increase. Try breathing carbon dioxide some day and tell me that it isn't a pollutant. ANYTHING can be a pollutan...

speedkar9 wrote: And I was about to go out and buy an Antec 300 for this PC.....

Feedback is appreciated.

you still should.

Three Mile Island nearly melted down -- all too real. Nuclear is way too expensive. All the plants being built now (all over the world) are way over budget. The same money spent on wind would be a lot more productive. We need to mimic the principle of what they are already doing in Germany with ren...

could have relatively easily snaked the floppy cable underneath the motherboard.

Aurthur...


AURTHUR!!!!11

the thing that's stopping fast breeder reactors is regulation. your hippie friends that think somehow a nuclear power reactor is a bomb waiting to kill you all. people shouldn't be taking their ideas for power from science fiction books. that's just fucking retarded. regarding neilblanchard's cartoo...

i'm dumping K7 era CPU's and assosciated hardware because i have no use for them. i'm even beginning to dump early K8 era. (socket 939) p1 and p2 are completely useless. my father had a p3-600 mhz dell mid-tower that he was using for a specific task. i talked him into a new lenovo q100 (the fanless ...

All I have to say is don't skimp on this expense, if you want one, get the best for your setup. I've seen too many computers blown due to the cheap 30€ unit that some people think is good enough for their 1000€ setup. huh? i've never seen a computer blown by an UPS. get one rated to handle your...

more "live green" crap.

*yawn*

IME, the solo wasnt a very breathable case.

when i had it and an 8800GTS, the 8800GTS started overheating and artifacting. i attributed it to the case.

i switched out to a p180, added another front 120mm fan, and couldnt be happier.

No, I think Dick "Imperial Presidency" Cheney has plenty to answer for, but that is not one of them. I think the CIA should stick to actual intelligence gathering, and not carry out any policy actions. We would be a lot better off if they had. how are you in any position to make that declaration? w...

Oliver Stone is a paranoid schizophrenic. You may recall his film JFK , in which he claimed that LBJ had Kennedy assassinated, so South of the Border is going to be fairly predictable. I don't think anyone will care much (other than Amy Goodman), just as very few in the US care much about Chavez (e...

i'll respond to the rest of your post later. Look forward to reading and responding after a good nights sleep :) i never had a history class that covered WWII in any greater detail than the mention that we had a war. none of them ever mentioned any specific battles, commanders, etc. merely leaders ...

Or that some terrible events are actually very important, such as Pearl Harbour. i'll respond to the rest of your post later. just wanted to say this. i never had a history class that covered WWII in any greater detail than the mention that we had a war. none of them ever mentioned any specific bat...

You know what I never learned about in school? The settlement of The West. The Donner Party. The Oregon Trail. My education on the West was that somebody bought Louisiana for pennies per acre and sent Louis and Clark down the Oregon Trail to discover gold in San Francisco so that we could all wear ...

3: It's better to remember that SEPARATION MUST EXISTS in political and bureaucratic matters. It has to be studied on the text books because this separation is an important step in western history. "Already" is ambiguous. "Already" is in danger of being forgotten in the future, if you assume it as ...

Good posts all round, nice to see some sense. The only way that I can see the US keep its sanity is to change some of the rules and regulations that affect religions directly. There are 3 very simple ways of doing this. 1.) Tax them. Re-classify all religions as "businesses" because they are, they ...

... get the hint. computers and electronic devices are cheap because of economies of scale. even if we paid workers properly, the end costs of said devices wouldnt go up significantly. Really? Then tell me why so many companies get stuff made in places like China, Korea, India if it's not because o...

... the stupidity in this thread is amazing. first off, the reason this is news is because foxconn is out of the ordinary. this isnt par for the course, even in china. second, if you've read anything more than these stupid articles about the situation, you'd realize that the reason for poor working ...

never had to say this word :lol: EDIT Kah Zeh - means "like this" in my laguage (hebrew) EDIT2: Can someone plaese tell me how to pronounce scythe? Me and a freind are constantly in disagreement on this one. easier solution would be to google it in a dictionary or wiktionary, and listen to the soun...