Cold CRT Guns for Thinner CRTs

Fly writes: "According to EETimes, an Austin startup company is close to producing CRTs with cold-emission electron guns. They claim this will reduce the parts needed for electron guns as well as allow for greater control and deflection of the electron beams leading to thinner CRTs. Their technology uses older chip-manufacturing techniquest to deposit diamond tips for the guns on silicon wafers. They hope to enter the CRT market next year."

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OT: In defense of slashdot

[Krapangor]

I know this is OT but there are things which must be said and they must be said loud.

I'm reading slashdot for a very long time, but lately more and "slashdot suck"/"die slashdot die" posts turn up here and they didn't even got modded down to -5 immediately. I can't stand this anymore.

Slashdot was the best news site for geeks on the internet for years, is the best now and will be the best in the next 10 years. Some points are usually critized about slashdot and I'll discuss them now and show how these "critics" are all just crackpipe rants.

• Some people rant about the "low quality" of slashdot but this is nonsense. Slashdot features interesting and high level topics. If you don't agree you are either too stupid to understand the stories posted here or you are some artsy-fartsy ivory-tower scientist who has no clue what's going on in the real world and occupies himself all the time with useless artifical academic problems.
• Some people rant about the missing "originality" of the stories, because slashdot summarizes the stories and other sites and posts the summaries here. Firstly there is always a link to the original story, so this "stealing content" argument is all nonsense. Secondly the summary enables you to discuss the topic without chewing through a long boring, artsy-fartsy article of e.g. the N.Y. Times. Thirdly slashdot collects information form all different sites a normal geek would never visit, because e.g. they want some privacy tainting "free" registration (not free, because you pay with information about you social behavior) or they grossly advertise for companies like Microsoft.
• Some people rant about the spelling in the articles. This is the most anally fixiated argument I ever heard. No real geek cares about your spelling. It's important what you have to say and not how you say it. And I'm sure Taco and co. would have added a spell checker to slashdot already, but every decent programmer (not VB jerks) knows how difficult it is to intergrate external programs into server side perl code in a secure way (or do you want slashdot h4x0r3d ?).
• Some people rant about John Katz. This is nonsense too. John is the best colummn writer on slashdot. If you don't agree you are surely too stupid to understand his marvelously written articles or you envy him for his surpreme literal skills. John is the only top level journalist who ever had cared about geeks and their lifes. Many people rant about this hellmouth book, but don't you see that it serves to draw attention to the torture and cruelity geek undergo in their lifes because "they don't fit in" ??? I think just for his effords to make the lifes of geeks better in a cruel and heartless society he should get at least the pulitzer price. He also earns this prices for his high quality contributions to journalism.
• Some people rant about the hypocracy on slashdot towards open software. But this is nonsense. Open software is much better than any form of closed software always. Because it doesn't get the support from the PR drones of big companies it can use all help it gets from everywhere. So it is 100 percent ok to be much more critical towards closed software. And being too critical is not much loss because even good closed software is just the lesser evil.

Who are these people who critize slashdot all the time ?
Well I think we know them all - they are the very same bullies who tortured you in school, low brained meat-heads and trend slime. People who can't stand all people who don't fit into their shallow ideals of ideal poeple.

They can't stand that geeks have a save place where they can exchange their ideas.
They can't stand that geeks earn much more and are much better off with their high level jobs as web programmers and network admins.
They can't stand that geeks have created a superior software system, GNU/Linux and *BSD, that's why they are advocating MS products.
They can't let live geeks in peace and therefore are making trouble here on slashdot.

Yes, I know this will modded down, but I don't care about karma and like I said in the beginning there are some things which just must be said.

Re:OT: In defense of slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

You almost had me there. Very good troll, bravo.

This reminds me.

[Rope_a_Dope]

And in other news... Scientists in Idaho have discovered a method of cold fusion.