The smaller your manufacturing process gets, the smaller a defect has to be to ruin a chip. Increasing chip sizes would get you a higher percentage of defective chips on a single wafer. Also, the kind of purity the processes need is hard to get, so silicon real estate is fairly expensive. Thus, bigger chips mean higher costs from two different sources, adds up pretty fast. Might be talking out of my ass here, but that's how I've understood it.
Very true, and in general I'd say that the 15$ figure mostly applies to Japan and South Korea, maybe Norway/Sweden, not sure about their prices tho. I'm in Finland and pay 43 for 100Mb. Not that I'm complaining, it's bloody awesome.
The problem is that you are resorting to ad hominem attacks rather than actually arguing your point. Now, please, go away and bully some schoolchildren or something.
No, and I'm not even a native English speaker, yet I still understand what's meant by the word in this context, so as far as I'm concerned it's a perfectly legitimate use. Claiming otherwise is just pedantry.
(How's that for a run-on sentence?)
And? You don't judge a government by their standards. What the Chinese government might think of those one and a half million people shouldn't affect how you view their actions against them.
Yeah, let's start ruining young hackers' (and I mean that in the positive sense) lives for youthful indiscretion, that's the way to go. The punishment does need to fit the crime, it's just that the 'crime' of rooting some insecure corporate box and not doing anything particularly destructive or criminal (credit card fraud etc.) with it is just not what I'd consider a big deal. Slap on the wrist, sure. Jail? Hell no.
Poor upstream? Speak for yourself. Scandinavia at least is pretty much moving up to 10 or 100mbit full duplex connections, at least for people who actually care about bandwidth, altho the slower connections are mostly symmetrical nowadays as well.
How is the percentage relevant? One and a half million people are one and a half million people, regardless of how big or small a fraction they might be of some semi-arbitrary set.
English is a living language, thus the word 'map' has come to mean something somewhat different in the context of biology, medicine etc.. And no, that's not a bad thing.
IANAXB, but I'd hazard a guess that it's mostly due to the lack of liquid water, and the relative inability of other solvents to substitute for it in conventional biochemistry. It's been proposed in sci-fi on quite a few occasions tho.
Doesn't really matter, nobody (in the media, at least) uses the word 'maser' anymore. It's a microwave laser. Might even omit the word 'microwave'. Makes no sense, but there you go.
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Hideous at first? Yeah. Awesome? You're damn bloody right it is. Takes some getting used to is all.
The smaller your manufacturing process gets, the smaller a defect has to be to ruin a chip. Increasing chip sizes would get you a higher percentage of defective chips on a single wafer. Also, the kind of purity the processes need is hard to get, so silicon real estate is fairly expensive. Thus, bigger chips mean higher costs from two different sources, adds up pretty fast. Might be talking out of my ass here, but that's how I've understood it.
What the hell happened to my euro sign?
Very true, and in general I'd say that the 15$ figure mostly applies to Japan and South Korea, maybe Norway/Sweden, not sure about their prices tho. I'm in Finland and pay 43 for 100Mb. Not that I'm complaining, it's bloody awesome.
The problem is that you are resorting to ad hominem attacks rather than actually arguing your point. Now, please, go away and bully some schoolchildren or something.
No, and I'm not even a native English speaker, yet I still understand what's meant by the word in this context, so as far as I'm concerned it's a perfectly legitimate use. Claiming otherwise is just pedantry. (How's that for a run-on sentence?)
And? You don't judge a government by their standards. What the Chinese government might think of those one and a half million people shouldn't affect how you view their actions against them.
Yeah, let's start ruining young hackers' (and I mean that in the positive sense) lives for youthful indiscretion, that's the way to go. The punishment does need to fit the crime, it's just that the 'crime' of rooting some insecure corporate box and not doing anything particularly destructive or criminal (credit card fraud etc.) with it is just not what I'd consider a big deal. Slap on the wrist, sure. Jail? Hell no.
Poor upstream? Speak for yourself. Scandinavia at least is pretty much moving up to 10 or 100mbit full duplex connections, at least for people who actually care about bandwidth, altho the slower connections are mostly symmetrical nowadays as well.
How is the percentage relevant? One and a half million people are one and a half million people, regardless of how big or small a fraction they might be of some semi-arbitrary set.
It kinda boggles my mind that this got modded 'insightful'.
English is a living language, thus the word 'map' has come to mean something somewhat different in the context of biology, medicine etc.. And no, that's not a bad thing.
Redundancy in a system and redundancy in discussion are two entirely different things. Perhaps it's you who should check what the word means.
Oven or washing machine. The computer would be the last to go. Sadly, I'm quite serious.
IANAXB, but I'd hazard a guess that it's mostly due to the lack of liquid water, and the relative inability of other solvents to substitute for it in conventional biochemistry. It's been proposed in sci-fi on quite a few occasions tho.
Shredded your receipt did you? Say goodbye to your kneecaps. And bring proof you voted for uncle Tony next time.
Doesn't really matter, nobody (in the media, at least) uses the word 'maser' anymore. It's a microwave laser. Might even omit the word 'microwave'. Makes no sense, but there you go.