Bill Gates-backed 'nuke' project. Hope it works better than Windows XP. Or whatever. (Page 1/1)
rinselberg JUL 07, 11:18 AM
I have had very little user experience with any version of Microsoft Windows. Some. Not at all recently. But I know some of the jokes and punch lines. Now, the Bill Gates-backed' TerraPower venture has selected Kemmerer, Wyoming—a coal-mining town—as the site of their experimental "Natrium" nuclear (fission) reactor. It's a "go small" approach. Or "go smaller." I don't see it being called a "mini-reactor."

Brief video report from CNN Business:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/...s/business-innovate/

"Natrium" Reactor and Integrated Energy Storage
https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/natriumpower/

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 07-07-2022).]

Notorio JUL 17, 12:47 AM
Let's also hope that it won't be controlled by Windows-based systems

Here's a nice little Wiki on this type of reactor. I had forgotten the several advantages these offer (e.g. no, long-term radioactive waste to manage). What I remember (more like 'can't forget') is the sodium fire and explosion I witnessed due to sodium and water not getting along

Sodium-Cooled Reactor Wiki
Jake_Dragon JUL 17, 02:22 PM
MS "Windows" grabbed its market share by going public before the other guy. Then patching until it was time to repeat for more money.
Products that spent too much time in development were too slow to market to compete.

Windows was sold on the smoke screen that it was going to simplify how a computer is used, that anyone could get on one and be productive. This was sold to Companies that had leadership who were clueless to how people work on computers.
I have no doubt that he is still riding that same marketing guide.

As a side line, its only a matter of time until everything is subscription based and microtransactions are a way of life.

BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
https://www.theverge.com/20...heated-seats-feature

This is the wave of the future and as soon as they lock down all of the electronic access to money there is nothing you will be able to do about it.
Hell some AI may hear you tell your significant other that you want something and just go ahead and buy it for you.
Fats JUL 18, 01:43 AM

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Originally posted by Jake_Dragon:

MS "Windows" grabbed its market share by going public before the other guy. Then patching until it was time to repeat for more money.
Products that spent too much time in development were too slow to market to compete.

Windows was sold on the smoke screen that it was going to simplify how a computer is used, that anyone could get on one and be productive. This was sold to Companies that had leadership who were clueless to how people work on computers.
I have no doubt that he is still riding that same marketing guide.

As a side line, its only a matter of time until everything is subscription based and microtransactions are a way of life.

BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
https://www.theverge.com/20...heated-seats-feature

This is the wave of the future and as soon as they lock down all of the electronic access to money there is nothing you will be able to do about it.
Hell some AI may hear you tell your significant other that you want something and just go ahead and buy it for you.



My wife's Avalon has things you can subscribe to. Not heated seats, but stock tracking, weather and such. Not to mention that we have to pay to update the GPS.
I believe that the Tesla's have similar things. Even if you purchased the vehicle second hand you had to pay extra to turn on things like self driving even if the previous owner had it turned on.

It's not as far as BMW is going with it, but along the same thought process I think. Nothing will stop them. They see how much money is made in micro transactions with everything else.

I'm suddenly finding myself back on the side of the pirates. One solution I see is to get a class action suit going. If an item has something installed, heated seats for example, then how we (the consumer) decide to turn that device on and off should be up to us. Have the courts tell the automakers (and others) that they have no power once we purchase something. Similar to right to repair, but let us make the item work however we wish.