Re: Alarmist, Moi?
Not I! I have the body of a Greek god. The fat one.
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Every time Lewis produces a radiant ^W glowing report on the situation, another bit falls over.
I believe I see a pattern here.
The USians are evacuating the bases near Tokyo, including (ironically) having their nuclear-powered aircraft carrier stand out to sea. Another bit falls into place...
How do you do it, Lewis?
Impossible to say what sets off a downvoter (or an upvoter for that matter). IMHO amassing either is A Good Thing- an indication of a quality post. And if a post becomes the root of an entire thread, its brilliant.
As I may be made redundant shortly, I've wondered how to apply to be a scribe/wordsmith at El Reg. Is there financial compensation involved (from El Reg to me, in case I was unclear)? I've demonstrated my command of clichés, I think.
It seems the entire site is spent fuel storage. Similar to many other commercial reactors, spent fuel simply accumulates, with disposal costs simply pushed further into the future. High-level waste storage problems must be addressed, and costs assigned to the power companies creating the waste. Otherwise this is simply another example of market distortion.
Its going on a week since this 'celebration' began, and we are still collectively looking into the bottomless pit of hell that is Fukushima.
Lewis (and that font of Truth, TEPCO) tell us the protective pentagram is nearing completion. How nice we've perhaps dodged another bullet. If the technology has worked, even if heroic measures were required, that is good news, particularly for those impressed by hardware specifications. I remember reading an analysis that set the rate of nuclear power plant catastrophes at 1 in 10000 years. There's an impressive number, eh?
In the meantime, the rest of us who are only interested in getting on with our lives in safety, will be left to compare piccies of Chernobyl and Fukushima. They are eerily similar.
As an agnostic (read: not a true believer in the nuclear religion, or any other, really), I also tend to scepticism. It warms my heart to read the quaintly naif messages of those who have yet to learn that the same power that made kittens and bunny wabbits also put snakes in the grass. You may learn that Tokyo Electric Power Company is a false prophet. They do have a record of covering up safety failures at their reactors. Perhaps you will never learn, but that is not my responsibility.
Don't let my bitter ravings interfere with your celebration. Meantime, I will continue my death watch via NHK News. NHK say that Fukushima now ranks above Three-Mile Island (but yet below Chernobyl) in the disaster scale.
Sorry, but the wife is not impressed. As for myself, being red-green blind, LEDs look OK though my eyes still water at the price.
As for the bulb, at first I thought it was an example of poor quality control at the factory. I've replaced half of our incandescent bulbs with CFLs- best of both worlds. Instant light and reduced expense.
"assuming the prices don't change and last year's average sales price of $600 per iPad remains constant"
Assuming also no iPad2, or 3 or 4. Apple's designers are bright lads, and I can with confidence predict Apple will maintain their lead for more than 5 years.
The iPad 1.2 is clearly a stop gap designed to throw the ranks of the competition into disarray- and it has done. I fully expect iPad 2 to do far more than have a svelte profile.
I'm not yet part of the Apple ecosystem, but I do expect to purchase an iPad one day. As I have neither the dosh nor the interest in buying each new (or even every other new ) version of the forbidden fruit, likely I'll buy only the ones with prime numbered versions. As I age, the interval between purchases will increase nicely.
Oh God, please stop!
We're running COBOL object code (we've lost the sources) from your era that contains 4-digit fields for year! It will cost us dear (the planetary GDP) to fix! Not to mention that English is a dead language (what does "perform" *really* mean?).
Death to COBOL!
I believe Watson is being exploited by IBM for public relations purposes, whilst Jeopardy is exploiting it for audience size. Watson will not profit from this exploitation in the least!
In any case, the Child of Watson will be much smaller and more powerful! Speak then of "fairness", human!
You need only consider the effort put into digging smuggling tunnels beneath the Mexico/USA border to know Mexicans are not lazy.
As for the ambassador, why is he spending his time watching Auntie Beeb when Mexico produces so many excellent telenovelas? Instead of simply complaining, he ought to have made a positive contribution by promoting Sabado Gigante.
If Mexicans are anything, it is thin-skinned. And they do make excellent beer!