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The Diamond Age
bigner writes "The new diamond age is here and will revolutionize the computer industry. Diamonds show amazing potential as a superior semiconductor."
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So this would make my sig a good thing?? I want a computer made of diomonds.
-=You might be a geek if your computer is worth more than your car=-
Apple invented the word 'super,' and also invented incredibly over priced computers. You PC losers are just jealous.
Now it will be back in the day when computers cost like $4000. Oh yea, no more stupid users. If someone really wants a computer they're going to have to take the time to learn to use it or it will end up being a waste of 4 grand instead of $600. I predict a new golden age!!!
Help I'm a rock.
Bah, I'm more concered about the reverse being true. You know, like when semiconductors will show amazing potential as a superior diamond. Because it's a hell of a lot cheaper to give my girlfriend a chip than a diamond ring. And just because you're not using diamonds doesn't mean you can't differentiate on the value. The slick executive types will propose with dual Athlons, while the poor struggling college student will have to resort to a 6502 or something.
There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
I thought about getting Mrs. Claus one of these fake diamonds as an engagement ring stone, but then I thought about what I was saying by doing such a thing. Is my love for her just a facsimile of true love? Though chemically and physically the manufactured diamond is identical to a mined diamond, there is the lingering feeling that it is somewhat untrue to the spirit of diamonds. It is a perfect, fake diamond.
I didn't want to have that sort of guilt hanging over my head, so I didn't go with the cheaper diamond.
I decided to buy her a cheapy cubic zirconium instead.
I can tell my wife that she should let me a new 3 carat Radeon 18000 Pro for our anniversary? I mean, it has diamonds, after all.
In Response to the famous /. proposal.
Kathleen, I bet you are kicking yourself for giving in so soon now!
(with apologizes to CmdrTaco)
When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
"noticed that, can't spell.. that is why I suck programing."
The OSS Community welcomes you!
*starts singing* A kiss on the RAM might be quite unconventional, but diamonds are a geek's best friend!
exploitation of black African minors
Uh...I thought that was R. Kelly.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
I'm not trying to troll, but when will mainstream applications (see: desktop computers, or at least universities) come around? Until we see anything, it's all theoretical, and all subject to just being vaporware.
Apollo produces its diamonds by CVD -- chemical vapor deposition. So, in a way, these new diamonds are literally vaporware.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
YES!!1!11one!!!1!
Wrong, says Jef Van Royen, a senior scientist at the Diamond High Council, the official representative of the diamond industry in Belgium. "If people really love each other, then they give each other the real stone," he says, during an interview at council headquarters on the Hoveniersstraat in Antwerp. "It is not a symbol of eternal love if it is something that was created last week."
I invite Mr Van Royen to visit his local pawn shop.
-R
now i'll have to make sure the cpu is really a diamond before i can overclock it?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
you mean that DeBeers would not jump in and control the computer market?
I can see the tustle between Microsoft and the South African slave traders hotting up already...
"Here's one for you, one for you, one for you... etc." "Your next payday is in 6 months, and don't go spending it all in one place!"
Deltron 3030 - Virus (music video)
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
Gone would be the days of chipping your Athlon core because of those damn huge thermaltake orbs!
-- I'd say your post was about 3 monkeys, 18 minutes.
DeBeers executives offered their condolences...
by "pending" I assume you mean "once every single Republican and most Democratic politicians are dead", right?
Jerry shoved the books in his locker. He was exhausted by his school work, so he talked to his friend,Sam, over at Jerry's house.
"I get a boner when I look at her...."
"Who?" Sam said as he looked at Jerry.
"Erica."
"Oh yeah," Sam said. "I'd bet you'd love to get her up the ass."
"Yeah," said Jerry. " In fact, since I'm going to be 23 in tomorrow, she invited me over for dinner tomorrow night."
"Really? Kickass!" Sam said.
"She's really pretty..."
"You know what? She even told me personally that she likes you!" Jerry smiled.
"Oh Gosh,"
"She is even horny for you..."
"Are you kidding?"
"No...she really likes you. You'll probably have a good time tomorrow,and... oh it's late! I gotta go. See you Jerry."
"Bye Sam," Sam left.
ONE DAY LATER
Jerry rang the doorbell.The door opened.
"Happy birthday!" Erica screamed. Jerry looked at her cunt. God, was she beautiful. Her face was the prettiest face Jerry would ever see. In the first hour, they talked and had a cup of cocoa. But in the next hour, she got horny, and they headed up for the bed. Jerry took his clothes off, as did Erica. Jerry took a glance at her body. It was perfect! Jerry lied on the bed and Erica got on top of Jerry.
Jerry stuck his cock into her cunt and she went wild.
"More! More!" She screamed. Jerry had never seen another woman this much wanting sex.Erica looked down at Jerry.
"I want you to be inside me," she said.
"Yes!" said Jerry. " I want to be inside you!" He didn't know that she really meant this. Erica grabbed his feet and shoved it in her mouth.
"What are you doing? Stop!"
"I want you to slide down the throat and live inside my sexy stomach where I will digest you inside this wonderful body of mine. You will become a part of me, and you will never have to leave me again. Down the hatch with you.."
"No!" Jerry screamed. Erica put Jerry in her mouth head-first, and closed her mouth. Then she quickly swallowed. Jerry slid down a dark tube, like a waterslide.He fell inside the stomach and was covered with stomach juices and fluids.He was dragged into the end part of the stomach. He was kicking and screaming, and beautiful Erica can feel it. She loved the feeling of a man kicking and screaming inside her body. As Jerry approached the end part of the stomach, and there was a brief pinch, and he went into the digestive system. Erica rubbed her abdomen in delight.
"MMMMM...."
Jerry started to become the cunt area. His body gave Erica power, and the rest of Jerry became the cunt's fluids.She rubbed her abdomen once more, loving the way she digested men.She got out of bed and took a piss, and realized she had become a little bit fatter.
THE NEXT DAY
"Erica! Erica! I was looking for you,I can't find Jerry!"
"Oh," she said. "I took him into bed and slept with him,but he was gone the next morning."
"Ok, thanks for your help Erica." Sam said.
Erica stomach began to gurgle. "MMM.." Erica said. "That meal was just too good."
Carbon, is there anyhing it can't do?
When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost, you mourn for yourself. - Harpo Marx
Please tell me you're joking: "Hi, I've no concept of fiscal responsibility. I've thrown away thousands of dollars on a bauble. Would you like to tie your economic future to mine?"
Be careful what you wish for. If she's not computer savvy, she might get her diamond laced mother on board.
God bless you then.heh, after reading the article I called up a freind and her (me being a male) what would she rather have? A thirty-two carat ring or a 1 carat ring, both of them cost the same.
her: "What do you mean? Is one cloady and chipped and stuff?"
me: "Nope, they are both perfect and identicle."
her: "What? Is one fake?"
me: "Yes, but it's impossible to tell the difference."
her: "The one carot ring, because it's real."
me: "You can't tell the difference."
her: "You can always tell the difference between a fake diamond and a real one."
me: "No, you can't. This guy figured out how to do it."
her: "Then he's lying."
me: "No, It's new. He hasn't started making it yet, you can only tell the difference with a special machine"
her: "Then you can tell the difference"
me: "Sure if you have a several hundred thousand dollars machine laying around. So you'd still get the small one? Their both real diamonds, it's just that one isn't out of the ground."
her: "No that's not the point, the point is well.. I don't have to explain it to you, your not female. I've had this discussion with you before."(I asked her about the obsesion about diamonds after watching PBS shows.)
me: "What about the warehouses of diamonds that De Beers have?"
her: "what about them?"
m: "diamonds aren't rare, they aren't forever and you can pick them up off of the ground some places. In fact they are one of the most common gemstone."
her: "It doesn't matter, you don't understand. It's the cost of them it makes them special, it's traditional"
me: "It's not traditional, that stuff didn't start until the 50's."
her: "well, umm."
me: "What about the all the almost slaves that mine the diamonds for de beers?"
her: "I don't care about the slave... um."
me: "Or the fact that they are used to fund terrorists, revolutions, and bloody conflicts all over africa?"
her: "Well that's.. um.. not the point.."
me: "So are you still saying you'd prefer the tiny one?"
her: "Um.. Hey I'll give you a call tomorrow"
me: "bye then."
click
*sniker*
- they just decay on a timescale significantly longer than your marriage.
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
Sounds like my last marriage....
I'll take your word for it. :)
You know what?
I was buying an engagement ring 6 months ago, and one of the guys there was demanding to know where the stones came from. He appearantly didn't want a 'blood diamond'. I was like: "Dude, for what we're paying, a dozen people BETTER have died smuggling these rocks."