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The Costs of Making a DRAM Chip
Anonymous Coward writes "Researchers at the United Nations University in Tokyo studied the physical and environmental costs to produce one 32-megabyte DRAM chip. Their conclusion? The UNU team found that to make every one of the millions manufactured each year requires 32 kg of water, 1.6 kg of fossil fuels, 700 grams of elemental gases (mainly nitrogen), and 72 grams of chemicals (hundreds are used, including lethal arsine gas and corrosive hydrogen fluoride)."
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Uh oh, watch out for those black helicopters!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
No we don't.
You may not be aware of the history of FreeBSD, but it was primarily coded in the Socialist Republic of Berkeley, and you can be sure the God-hating Communist ethos pervades every line of code.
So, in essence, FreeBSD will be slow, unreliable, balky and cause it's users and administrators to be damned to the eternal torment of Hell, much like Soviet Russia.
You would be better off using an AT&T branch of SYSV UNIX, at least people in New Jersey believe in God.
A. Rightmann
OK, I am going to try to use my good karma to get a conversation started. It will be slightly off-topic, but on-topic insofar is slashdot being the medium through which we communicate individual stories like this.
I have googled and not found any answers, and I couldn't think of a better place (paradoxically enough) to ask this question: Is Slashdot slow or what? For the last week or two, but especcially recently, and from different kinds of connections, also. I was wondering, are we being (d)DOS-ed? Or, did some server go down, or what? It is driving me nuts, so I was wondering if someone could help clear this up. Couldn't think of a better place, other than Ask Slashdot, which is just silly.
I posted this reply last Tuesday!
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
you idiots- the Gi was obviously a typo, as he used Ge below that. look here.
Read jack phelps dot net
Why do this when all the pollution is on the other side of the planet. Who cares.
I know you are nothing but a troll... but I just had to reply so that I could make an ignorant anti-tree-hugger comment.
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"What do you want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? Cause I'm married."
Amerikan Fascism: A Work In Progress (2001) by
by Bush, G. W., Ashcroft, J., Rumsfeld, D., and Cheney, D.
Helium doesn't cancel gravity, it just happens to have a low density
The one true bit in your post.
BTW, there aren't "many" Helium containing compounds. At least not as compared to other elements, or even other noble gases. There are no currently known stable compounds of Helium.
Second, I would assume the "Gi" was a typo
Or would you assume the "Hi" later was actually HI? And he actually did mean Germanium the first time?
clearly meant "HeGI", which is Helium Gallium Iridide and is widely used in chip manufacture
I is Iodine. And before any compound can be widely used it has to exist in the first place.
Not that it matters, you are a known trollbuster and should be modded down
It's always funny seeing a troll whining about a troll buster. Your standard MO is no different from the original poster's.
And yes, you may now be happy that you got some attention. Your life as a troll has been fulfilled for today.
Frankly, I'm bored and it's rather fun debunking your posts. They're at least somewhat better than Jack Wagner's.
I know! Let's put all the toxic waste on a rocket to the moon!
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