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Intel: Metal in Future Chips = Less Leakage (updated)
securitas writes "Intel is contemplating using metal instead of silicon in future chips for the 'transistor gate, which controls whether a transistor is on or off' and the 'dielectric, an insulating layer below the gate,' which are respectively made of silicon atoms and silicon dioxide. 'Millions of minuscule switches that make up silicon chips leak electricity when they're supposed to be shut off. To compensate, engineers have increased the current, driving up power consumption, decreasing battery life for portable devices and generating more heat.' AMD has also experimented with metal instead of silicon. By moving to metal AMD and Intel expect to reduce electricity leakage. More from AP via SeattlePI and the Miami Herald." Update: 11/05 15:25 GMT by T : Read on below for some information from Intel on why this is a good thing.
gManZboy writes "Following up on the Intel news that about using metal in chips -- here's an explanation from Shekhar Borkar (Intel Research Fellow) about why heat, power, and sub-threshold leakage, not transistor size, are the real challenges to Moore's law. Apparently, in order to make chips much faster, we're going to have to pump more electricity in then anything else in our houses -- and they'll soon be as hot as a nuclear reactor -- no, really."
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The Ending REVEALED!
"The Speak The Truth Scriptment"
--REAL MAJOR MAJOR NO SHIT PLOT SPOILERS--
The Matrix Revolutions Part 1 of 3
Movie opens with the green code, Warner Bros. and the logo, The Matrix
Revolutions. The code dissapears and we see a flash as the movie picks
up exactly where the last one did, with Bane and Neo on the tables,
knocked out. Trinity is slowly whispering to Neo to wake up, then talks
to the nurse. The nurse explains that it seems that Neo is jacked into
the Matrix. Trinity questions how this is possible and relays the
message to Morpheus. Morpheus gives her the news that Niobe's ship has
crashed and she is stranded with Ghost. Morpheus says that shes got
important information in regards to Neo. Trinity says to hurry up and
go.
They fly the Hammer into a crater and find the crashed Logos. Morpheus
and his crew go into the ship to discover that the power is out. With a
bit of repairs, the ship will work again. During this time, Bane
awakens, but notices that he is another room and not in Neo's place.
Also during this time, Niobei explains to Trinity that the Oracle has
loads of information as to the whereabouts of Neo and how to save him,
and that only Trin can save him. Link finishes the repairs on the ship
by giving some of the Hammer's power to it and it is ready to set out.
Morpheus and Trinity ask for the Logos so that they can go into
broadcast depth, as well as they explain that there is a survivor on
the Hammer which needed to be taken to Zion (they dont know Bane is on
the Logos). Niobe and Ghost take the Hammer and head back to Zion while
Morph, Link, Trin, and the unconscious Neo head into broadcast depth.
Trinity looks at Neo, pleading for him to awaken and we get a nice fade
into Mobil Ave.
Neo sees three power-lines in the desert of the real inside of his
head. Neo awakens in Mobil Ave with a headache. He checks his body for
injuries (including his belly-button), and gets up and sees a little
girl there. She smiles at him, and he tells her to wait. He looks
around and sees that he is in some sort of abandoned subway station. He
reads "Mobil Ave." on the walls. The little girl (the child) walks up
to him and says "welcome to limbo. I am Sati". Neo asks her what
happened, where Trinity is, where he is, etc. Sati says that he is in a
place between the Matrix and the Machine World. Neo gets up, confused,
and tries to walk away, with Sati following. She says that the body
cannot live without the mind, but the mind can live without the body,
and not to worry because help is coming. A subway train whizzes by...
stops... then keeps going. Neo notices the "LOOP" at the front and back
of the Train.
Meanwhile, Trinity and Morpheus arrive at the Oracle's apartment, and
are greeted by Seraph. He explains that they must defeat him in battle
before meeting with the Oracle, but suddenly Smith bursts through the
door. Three Smith Clones comes in, and Morpheus and Trin try to battle
it out with them, but are beat. Seraph steps in and beats the Smiths
and kicks them through the door. Trinity and Morpheus wonder how Seraph
could possibly be so powerful, and he simply says "You dont believe in
angels?"
Seraph takes Trinity and Morpheus to see the Oracle. The Oracle
welcomes them, and Trin wastes no time in asking about Neo. The Oracle
says he is being held captive by the Merovingian, and that he is in a
place between the Matrix and the machine world. Morpheus asks about her
appearance, and she explains that she was given up the Merovingian by
two programs which hatched a child within the Matrix which is vital to
the future. She says she had to change appearance to escape the
Merovingian. The Oracle tells them that Neo needs their help and that
the only way to break him out is to go see the Merovingian, who
controls the time within the Matrix, in Club Hell. Trinity and Morpheus
are set
To Whom It May Concern (other than myself):
Hi. I have been a huge fan of cereals of all kinds for my whole life. Sometimes I eat it for all three meals of the day, or live on it exclusively for weeks, or put it in my underpants to keep me feeling fresh (and also as an emergency back-up snack). I cereasly love it.
I am especially fond of a lot of your cereals like Boo Berry and Trix and Chex and Lucky Charms and Cookie Crisp. My absolute favorite is Fruity Pebbles though, which I believe is a Post cereal. Maybe you guys should make something that tastes like Fruity Pebbles except manages not to have Fred Flintstone's ugly mug all over the box. Yabba Dabba Eww. Anyway, my point is that I like a lot of your cereals and so I am personally concerned with their condition. And, quite frankly, lately I've been a bit worried.
Let's start with my favorite cereal of yours - Boo Berry. I love Boo Berry... at least I think I do... actually, I know it used to be my favorite cereal but I haven't had any in years so I've kind of forgotten what it tastes like - because it's not in any stores! No stores in my area carry it. I checked on your website and apparently you still make it; you even offer it for sale. Unfortunately I can't justify buying it for the $6.74 for a twelve ounce box price. You do offer buying it in a case instead of a four pack, which would drop the price to $4.71 a box, but that is still unreasonable and would also require me to spend an entire week's pay on a large shipment of haunted cereal. My girlfriend would kill me (if I didn't overdose on blue food coloring first).
I think I have a solution to this dilemma. I know you can't force any businesses to carry your cereals and I know that you can't afford to sell them direct for less than $4.71 and still have money left over to pay for upkeep on Count Chocula's castle, hiring someone to build 400 mind-numbing advertisements disguised as crappy kids games for youruleschool.com, and keep your CEOs rolling in golden Kix. So here's what you should do - open up your own stores all across the country. You've already got one in Mall-of-America, now put one in every mall in America. Even if you don't sell much cereal (and you'd sell a lot, trust me) it would be great advertising. You can sell t-shirts with nifty slogans like "Frosted Wheaties: When You're Too Damn Lazy To Put Sugar On Your Own Wheaties!" or "Honey Nut Chex: It Rhymes With 'Funny Butt Sex' For A Reason!" and other stuff which is even more great advertising plus it makes money up front. I can see it now, picture a young child in the mall with its mother...
YOUNG CHILD: Mommy! Mommy! Look at all the pretty colored cereal!
MOTHER: Oh Honey, you know cereals like that are just a result of the global dentist/cereal/porn conspiracy, we've been through this a million times...
YOUNG CHILD: Awww...
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT comes out of the store.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT: You know Ms. Averagemother, all of our cereals are fortified with titanium plating and deflector shi... er, essential vitamins and minerals; and they are a part of this complete breakfast.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT whips out a complete breakfast on a tray.
MOTHER: Well... I guess a few minutes couldn't hurt...
YOUNG CHILD: Gee, thanks mom!
YOUNG CHILD runs in followed slowly by MOTHER. Group of scantily clad dentists appears and drags MOTHER into back room. YOUNG CHILD transforms into a cartoon and spends eternity trying to steal Lucky's Charms and torturing the Trix Rabbit by hogging the cereal.
Now, on to my next suggestion. You need to do something about Cheerios. Really, they're awful. Yes they are good for my heart, but this is overshadowed by the fact that they taste like my butt.
On the other hand, a cereal that already tastes great is Lu
as we .continue to pretend that everything's just FUDgIE?
George Bush is a liar: impeach him
November 6, 2003
The "President" has no idea where his aggressive policies are leading America, warns Robert Scheer.
On Sunday, 18 more young Americans died in Iraq serving the vanity of an American President who woefully betrayed them and who has no idea where his policies are taking your country.
This is a President who, as is now amply clear, has systematically lied to the troops and the American people about the reasons for going to war, distorting evidence to claim that the United States was threatened by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and linking Iraq to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Having led America and its allies by the nose into a clumsy, ill-advised Middle East power grab, President Bush is faced with a terrible quandary: what do we do now?
The first thing is to resist the logic of the self-fulfilling prophecy: Bush claimed Iraq was a centre of international terrorism - it wasn't - and now says that because terrorists are coming over Iraqi borders to take pot shots at Americans, the US needs to stay and fight them.
"We won't run," Bush said, cavalierly dismissing the lives of the young soldiers mired in his folly. This amounts to using America's young men and women as bait and assumes there are a finite number of fanatics who can be dispensed with once and for all.
In fact, the US occupation of the historic centre of the Arab world has provided al-Qaeda and other like-minded groups with their most effective recruiting poster yet, and America is fighting them on their terms and on their turf.
Meanwhile, attacks also are coming from various Iraqi quarters: those who enjoyed favours under Saddam and those who may have been glad to see the US overthrow the tyrant but have since become alienated by an occupation that inevitably inspires nationalist as well as religious opposition.
If he can back off, the American public might be conned into giving him another term.
Why can't America learn from its history in Vietnam and the experiences of the French in Algeria and the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza that no occupation by an army of "the other" is ever welcome?
Only last week, Israel's army chief of staff issued a warning on the limits of an occupying power to achieve its goals through military force. "It increases hatred for Israel and strengthens the terror organisations," said Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon, adding: "In our tactical interests, we are operating contrary to our strategic interests."
Some pundits and politicians, even those who may have been sceptical about the war to begin with, now argue that the US must "finish the job", even if it means increasing its commitment of troops or ruling Iraq indefinitely. This is, however, exactly the kind of stubborn and mushy thinking that led the US into the hell of Vietnam and the deaths of 58,000 Americans and 2 million Vietnamese and Cambodians.
The occupation of Iraq is not working and will not work. For Iraqis, American culture is offensive and American tactics are heavy-handed. As none other than the American-sponsored Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi put it after the latest guerilla attacks: "The Americans, their methods, their operations and their procedures are singularly unsuited to deal with this kind of problem."
And US intentions in Iraq are far from clear. Though there may be an echo of "white man's burden" that seeks to export "civilisation", even that highly questionable goal is clouded and undermined by the fact that Washington inevitably will put a higher priority on having a new Iraq serve America's superpower needs - oil, commerce, military power - rather than meet the needs of regular Iraqis.
Unless America is willing to trade the lives of US troops and Iraqis for the obsessions of empire, America must end the occupation now.
The US can give Chalabi and his crowd the money th