Sharp Unveils Glass Computer

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Posted by chrisd on Tuesday October 22, 2002 @11:18PM from the beef-jerky-based-computing-to-follow dept.

thug writes "Moscow Times: Sharp Corp., Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. Shumpei Yamazaki, president of unlisted Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd., Sharp's partner in the project, compared the challenge of putting processor circuitry on glass to "building a skyscraper on rubber." But he said glass offered several advantages over silicon, including lower temperatures for production, so that faster metal gates could be used for its transistors."

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At least Taco didn't post it twice by SkankhodBeeblebrox · 2002-10-22 23:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hey, look on the bright side guys, at least CmdrTaco didn't post the same article twice, I think we've seen that before ;)
Re:Yet another dubbel post by flanksteak · 2002-10-22 23:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

By everyone except chrisd. I sometimes wonder how much time the editors of Slashdot actually spend reading it.
Get one by Ratbert42 · 2002-10-23 00:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

And use it to read Slashdot before posting duplicate stories.
Obligatory posts. by comet_11 · 2002-10-23 00:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Beowulf:
Is /. trying to cluster their posts in some kind of hideous plot against humanity? Could this be an alliance with Sharp?

or

Imagine getting a beowulf cluster of glass PCs!

Profit:

1. Post Story
2. ...
3. Goto 1
4. Profit!

or

1. Make glass PC
2. Work out use of having fragile, slow, highly heat-sensitive PC
3. ...
4. Profit!

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Re:To all complaining of the repeat post... by stud9920 · 2002-10-23 00:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah ! The one who never reposted should throw the first stone !
Re:Yet another dubbel post by Milican · 2002-10-23 00:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Really makes you wonder if the editors read slashdot... hehe

I can understand double posting something with a few weeks or a few months span apart. There is the off chance someone could forget about a story, but even a double story with a few days apart is hard to explain away with drugs.

JOhn

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Proceed to step 1... by MoonFacedAssassin · 2002-10-23 00:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic
1. Become a slashdot editor.
2. Post duplicate stories.
3. ???
4. Profit.
5. Repeat steps 2-4
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Re:Whoah by ari_j · 2002-10-23 00:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How come you got modded up for this, when I was probably all of a minute slow and my link to my comment wasn't? Once again, friends, the system is screwed up.
once you store a bit of work on the glass computer by mtec · 2002-10-23 00:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

is it half empty, or half full?

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Submission Repeat finder... by stephenisu · 2002-10-23 01:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I had this wonderful idea for a bit of code that we can add to slashcode. It is a tool for finding previous posts to verify if a cool new post truly is new.. We could call it the CowboyNeal anti-post-duplication algorithm. Then I realized something, they already have a search bar that can do that....

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