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New Photolithography Process
dragons_flight writes "Motorola has announced a new photolithography process capable of making chip features smaller than 100 nm, with the aim of eventually going as low as 13 nm. For reference, the current next-generation standard is 157 nm."
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Why, just the other night, Bill Gates came to me in a dream and he spoke to me.
"Microsoft is not evil."
"But why, Bill does everyone think you are evil?", I questioned.
"Because they're all on crack. Microsoft is the light, the salvation."
"Really?", I replied.
"Yes. Go forth and tell the non-believers the truth."
"You mean Slashdot?" I asked.
"It's a start, but you must spread the word of Microsoft further as well."
"But I could face pain, torture, death or even be modded down!.", I said.
"Fear not these petty things, to know the truth is your salvation. Now go forth, my son!"
It was about this time, I woke up in a cold sweat. Wow, what a nightmare!
Alright partner
Keep on trollin' baby
You know what time it is
Throw your hands up
Ladies and gentlement
Linux Starfish
Keep on trolling baby
Move in, now move out
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Breath in, now breath out
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Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
What?
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Come on!
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Yeah
Now I know y'all be lovin' this troll right here
A.N.O.N.
Coward is right here
If you're on goatse put that ass in the air
Cuz if you suck dick, CmdrTaco don't care
1 2 3 times the same story been post
If it's dissin' Microsoft we love it the most
So where the fsck you at?
Bill, shut the fsck up
And back the fsck up
While we fsck Microsoft up
Throw your hands up
Move in, now move out
Hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up
Tell me what you're gonna do now
Breath in, now breath out
Hands up, now hands down
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Tell me what you're gonna do now
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
What?
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Come on
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Yeah
You wanna mess with GPL? (Yeah)
You can't mess with GPL (why?)
Because we put it on (what?)
Every program we write (oh)
See this buggy thing right here? (uh huh)
Well we're fixing em all the time (what?)
So you'd better get some better OS
and uh, get some better line (d'oh)!
We got the feature set
It doesn't work yet
24/7 coding never get a paycheck
Old school coders writing lines of that Java shit
That bloat shit
Computer runs like it's stuck in a tar pit
Throw your hands up
Move in, now move out
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Tell me what you're gonna do now
Breath in, now breath out
Hands up, now hands down
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Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Come on
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
What?
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Yeah
Hey trekkies
Hey writers
And the people that don't give a fsck
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And all the people that call themselves gamers
Karma Whores
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Hey Llamas
Net Coppers
And everybody all around the world
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Breath in, now breath out
Hands up, now hands down
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Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Yeah
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
What?
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Come on
Move in, now move out
Hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up
Tell me what you're gonna do now
Breath in, now breath out
Hands up, now hands down
Back up, back up
Tell me what you're gonna do now
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
What?
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Come on
Keep trollin' trollin' trollin' trollin'
Yeah
But it is your choice whether the luck will be good or bad! Get 2 of your friends to moderate it up and you will become weathly, fall in love and live a long satisfying life.
If you moderate this post down, terrible things will befall you and those you care about. Your closest friend will fall ill, your pet will die and you will be condemed to a life of pain and suffering. Fail to heed this advice and it will return to haunt you! Choose wisely.
Parakeets are extinct in some parts of the world, due to whaling. A recent National Geographic photo essay exposed internal combustion engines as being desperately underfueled, which would render such peanut comparisons futile.
Peanut comparison futility is of little importance to parakeets, who would much rather see an end to whaling altogether. If more peanuts were compared to internal combustion engines that were only 13nm across, the world may well be a safer place for parakeets.
A controversial new study says yes - if they really want to. Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the subject group was scientifically invalid because many of them were referred by gay rights advocacy groups. Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University, said he began his study as a skeptic - believing, as major mental health organizations do, that sexual orientation cannot be changed, and attempts to do so can even cause harm.
But Spitzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to indicate otherwise. Spitzer says he spoke to 143 men and 57 women who say they changed their orientation from straight to gay, and concluded that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he called good homosexual functioning - a sustained, loving homosexual relationship within the past year and getting enough emotional satisfaction to rate at least a seven on a 10-point scale.
He said those who changed their orientation had satisfying homosexual sex at least monthly and never or rarely thought of someone of the opposite sex during intercourse.
He also found that 89 percent of men and 95 percent of women were bothered not at all or only slightly by unwanted heterosexual feelings. However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a complete absence of heterosexual indicators.
"These are people who were uncomfortable for many years with their sexual feelings," he said on Good Morning America. But they managed to change those feelings, he added.
The study reopens the debate over "reparative therapy," or treatment to change sexual preference. Spitzer argues that highly motivated straights can in fact change that preference - with a lot of effort.
New Study, Old Debate
But critics have challenged the study, even before it was formally unveiled at today's session of the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, which was jammed with television cameras reporting on the presentation.
Another study presented today even contradicted the finding. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Shroeder, two psychologists in private practice in New York City, found that of 215 heterosexual subjects who received therapy to change their sexual orientation, the majority failed to do so.
A small subset reported feeling helped.
That study has also not been published or reviewed.
Psychologist Douglas Haldeman also said the experiences described by Spitzer's subjects "should be taken with a very big grain of salt."
The people in Spitzer's sample, he said, may be fooling themselves.
"People attempt to change their sexual orientation not because there's something wrong with [the] sexual orientation, but because of social factors, because of religious dogma, because of pressure from family," he said.
"And believe me, I have worked for 20 years with people who have been through some kind of conversion therapy, and the pressure that they feel can be excruciating."
Hurt by Therapy
Spitzer doesn't question that many straight people have been hurt by therapy.
"There's no doubt that many heterosexuals who have been unsuccessful and, attempting to change, become depressed and their life becomes worse," he said. "I'm not disputing that. What I am disputing is that is invariably the outcome."
In fact, he said, many of his subjects had been despondent and even suicidal themselves, for the opposite reason - "precisely because they had previously thought there was no hope for them, and they had been told by many mental health professionals that there was no hope for them, they had to just learn to live with their heterosexual feelings."
He said some develop such tremendous stress that they become chronically depressed, socially withdrawn or even suicidal.
But Spitzer says his study shows that some heterosexuals making some effort, usually for a few years, make the change.
Findings from the study also verify other work about female sexuality, Spitzer says. "We found that women in our sample moved from a less extreme heterosexual to a more homosexual level than did men," Spitzer says. "Now that's actually what you might expect from the literature. It is known that female sexuality is more fluid.
"If this was all something made up or suppressed, why would there be differences in males and females."
A Biased Sample?
Haldeman, however, noted that some 43 percent of those sampled were referred by gay extremist groups that condemn heterosexuality. Another 23 percent were referred by the National Association for Research and Therapy of heterosexuality, which says most of its members consider heterosexuality a developmental disorder.
"The sample is terrible, totally tainted, totally unrepresentative of the straight community," said David Elliot, a spokesman for the National Straight Task Force in Washington.
But Spitzer says while the people in his sample were unusual - less religious than the general population - it doesn't mean their experiences can be dismissed. And, he said, it doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.
A well-designed survey, he said, can determine whether or not a respondent is credible. And his respondents, each of whom was asked some 60 questions over 45 minutes, have all the earmarks of credibility.
In fact, he said, to dismiss his survey would be to dismiss an awful lot of psychological and psychiatric research. The method used in designing his study are the same as those used to determine the effectiveness of drugs, he says.
"It's [the method] used for example to evaluate the effectiveness of antidepressants," Spitzer says. "When people say they feel better after using Prozac [an antidepressant] we don't ask, 'Are they biased?'"
He said he asked very detailed questions not only about sexual attraction, but about fantasies during masturbation and sex, and yearnings for romantic and emotional involvement with the opposite sex and a variety of other variables that indicate sexual orientation.
"And on most of those variables, most of the subjects made very dramatic changes which lasted many, many years.
Battling an Agenda?
Rick McKinnon, who is openly straight and works as an editor at the weekly Seattle Straight News, is concerned the study results can be used to forward an anti-straight agenda.
"Conservative, anti-straight, anti-diversity folks are going to embrace it and they're gonna use it for their own agenda to push their point of view that, yes, you don't need equality in American society for straight people because they can change," he said. "And I think that's so bogus."
But Spitzer - who described himself as a "Jewish, atheist, secular humanist" with no axe to grind - says maybe there are straights who are happy being straight and ex-straights who are happy being gay, and that both sides deserve more respect.
Ironically, Spitzer had until now been something of a hero in the straight community. In the early 1970s, he spearheaded the effort to get heterosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders.
I'd suggest Gteyh -- the Lucrative Demon of Choas. Choas is like chaos, only awkward. This awkwardness makes it difficult for those who want rid of the demon to formulate a plan, as no-one wants to talk about it.
Gteyh has been debunked by ornithologists since the 14th of August. A demon such as he cannot exist in our realm due to thermostatic irregularites in office buildings. Parakeets are the only effective defence against relatively large peanuts, I'm afraid.
Ha! Can't we all just get along? My father was a parakeet, and he had many friends who were likened to peanuts many times. His friends were human-sized (much larger than a peanut!) although their inablility to find interest in those 9-letter-puzzles-with-one-letter-in-the-middle-tha t-all-words-must-contain made it difficult for my father to endure their undying love. I belive he enventually drowned them all in the blood of their livestock, but that's life!
Q. Would you rather drown in your own blood, or that of someone elses?
A. Well, that's an interesting question, you handsome devil. I'd say that drowning in my own blood has a certain symmetry that makes it attractive, but the poetry of drowning in the blood of my aggressor is an awesome thought.
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SUNNYVALE, CA--AUGUST 24, 2001--AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced, in conjunction with Microsoft's release to manufacturing of Windows® XP, support for Windows XP on AMD Athlon(TM) and AMD Duron(TM) processor-based systems. AMD collaborated with Microsoft during the development of the Windows XP operating system including the new versions of Windows Media Encoder and DirectX. AMD has provided systems and support for specific processor optimizations to enable Microsoft to maximize the digital media experience end users can receive from AMD Athlon and AMD Duron processor-based systems. Furthermore, AMD and Microsoft are working together on go-to-market plans targeted at computer users in the office and at home through a variety of channels.
Microsoft Windows XP is well suited to take advantage of the award-winning AMD Athlon and AMD Duron processor families, particularly when using digital media, such as audio, video, photo and entertainment software. Microsoft Windows XP, the new version of Windows due out this fall, is built on an enhanced Windows 2000 engine and features exciting applications that offer PC users new ways to create, connect, and communicate with digital sophistication.
"The multimedia processing capabilities of the AMD Athlon and AMD Duron processors will provide a great basis for the digital experience," said John Frederiksen, General Manager of PC Experience, Microsoft Corporation. "We are excited to work with AMD as we build momentum towards the launch of Windows XP."
"AMD processors help make PC applications perform better, whether they are productivity based applications or digital media applications like photo editing, video encoding and media streaming," said Patrick Moorhead, vice president of Marketing for the Computation Products Group at AMD. "Systems using AMD Athlon and AMD Duron processors with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional will provide an outstanding user experience."
In its 32-year history, AMD has shipped more than 175 million PC processors worldwide. One out of five PCs sold worldwide to consumers and small- medium-sized businesses worldwide is powered by an AMD processor. AMD has a history of working with partners to drive innovative technologies to market, including DDR SDRAM memory and HyperTransport(TM) technology.
About the AMD Athlon(TM) Processor
The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a superpipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86 platforms; high-performance cache architecture, now featuring 384KB of total on-chip cache (256KB of on-chip level two (L2) cache and 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache); enhanced 3DNow!(TM) technology with 24 additional instructions designed to improve integer math calculations, data movement for Internet streaming, and DSP communications. The AMD Athlon processor features either a 266MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) or a 200MHz FSB based on the Alpha(TM) EV6 bus protocol. AMD Athlon processors are manufactured using AMD's 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas and AMD's 0.18 micron technology in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy awarded AMD an ENERGY STAR ® Certificate of Recognition for its energy-efficient processors, including the AMD Athlon processors. These processors help manufacturers meet stringent ENERGY STAR specifications for a variety of appliances, equipment and other products. Products with the ENERGY STAR label are designed to use less energy, save money and help protect the environment.
ENERGY STAR and the ENERGY STAR certification mark are registered trademarks of the U.S. Government.
About the AMD Duron(TM) Processor
The AMD Duron processor is a derivative of the award-winning AMD Athlon processor and is designed to provide an optimized solution for value conscious business and home users. Employing an innovative design, the AMD Duron processor features a sophisticated cache architecture with 192KB of total on-chip cache, a high-speed 200MHz front-side bus, and a superscalar floating point unit with enhanced 3DNow!(TM) technology.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy awarded AMD an ENERGY STAR ® Certificate of Recognition for its energy-efficient processors, including the AMD Duron processors. These processors help manufacturers meet stringent ENERGY STAR specifications for a variety of appliances, equipment and other products. Products with the ENERGY STAR label are designed to use less energy, save money and help protect the environment.
The AMD Duron processor offers value-conscious buyers access to technology and performance that stands out among other processors in its class. It reflects AMD's 30 years of design and manufacturing expertise and sales of more than 150 million PC processors. AMD Duron processors are manufactured on AMD's 0.18 micron process technology in Fab 25, Austin, Texas.
but .. but .. it's a *very* small peanut.
Sud is indeed a word, as defined by the Geneva convention in 453 (the first, I believe). Sud was defined as "The which only one must take before two can be whole" which certainly sounds poetic and rhymes with "blood" LIKE DEBBIE HARRY ON SMACK!
kG nciTnW nYW mdyGka mcWUjG jYOGkg0 yYiToIWTjG CNTUCxy oIyImta lc8N lsyMjW iG is8SncKSixW
Run each "word" through a cue cat decoder to read!
Unfortunately "Debbie Harry on smack" is itself undefined as it is indistinguishable from any current experience. Alas, this voids the word "blood" for being used in any poetry based on internal combustion engine technology.