Well I'm a gun owner and I've only killed one person. Funny thing is I did it with a heavy object (an old 8mm movie camera - crushed the skull of a mugger), not a gun.
So I suppose anyone with a heavy object that fits in their hand can be assumed to have killed at least one person.
This grid of memory circuits could be made so small that, based on the test junctions the researchers made, 1 million bits of information could fit in a square millimeter of paper-thin material.
That's a 1 micron square bit size. Pfft. We can do better than that with silicon.
Maybe not in software engineering, but they were quite common back when I was in desktop support. Chicks dig the knight in shining armor who fixes their computer problems. Ah, those were the days.
Actually, one of the major problems in Semicon manufacturing is filling the spaces left AFTER etching. If you don't get a clean fill, you get void areas which play hell with your electrical properties. The 10nm holes are pretty, but show me an SEM or TEM image cross-section of the fill and I'll be impressed.
No, but I am only 3 hours from our southern neighbor. Believe it or not, there are a lot of us crazy folk who build our own houses. Especially out in the country. Now git off my land!
Contractor, schmontractor. I built my own house with my own two hands. It takes over a couple year's worth of weekends to do, but you get exactly what you want (or what you are willing to do,) and you pay as you go. Once built, it's paid for. Now I just have to finish paying for the 32 acres of land...
It's this kind of situation that leads to a change in music. That's how we got punk rock in the first place. There won't be a rebellion until there is something to rebel against.
Yes, the review shows the P4 2.4 GHZ being roughly equal in performance to an Athlon 1.73 GHZ chip (XP2100+). AMD gets the same power from nearly 700MHZ lower clock speed. (Nearly 1/3 lower!)
Yet Intel still claims to be the "performance leader" with lower clock-for-clock performance and higher cost per CPU. Marketing, my friends. That's how you make the money.
Yes, I graduated after a short 7 years with a bachelor's degree in Marketing. A few years later, I was a network/PC technician. Now I'm a database administrator and web applications programmer. Another friend with a degree in business management is also a DBA/Sysadmin. Another friend has a history degree and is a hardware/network guru.
The moral is: Having a degree is important. It opens doors. What the degree is in is not so important. What you know (and who you impress) is more important.
But Intel does do this. In a slightly underhanded way. They offer cheaper prices to manufactures who don't use AMD processors. But now the performance/price advantages of AMD are starting to outweigh those discounts.
Why does Gateway keep flip-flopping between using AMD processors and not? The first time was because Intel offered them a $50 per CPU rebate if they dumped AMD, so they did, and then Intel reneged on the rebate. Eventually, Gateway's lawyers got tired and just went back to selling AMD. Until Intel came and offered them another rebate, which they are now apparently trying to renege on, but Gateway hired smarter lawyers this time.
AMD only announced this because Intel made their lame "breakthrough" announcement last week. Intel stock went up, AMD stock went down. So, AMD had to pull out one of their many similar "breakthrough" technologies and put it on the table to make their stock go back up. Announcements like this have NOTHING to do with technology and everything to do with impressing the really anazingly stupid market analysts.
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You hit it right on the head. Here are the top problems I see with IT:
1. Stairs. Especially in Europe, where I see a potential huge market because of the design of their cities, they have a lot of stairs.
2. Weather. A car is more than transport, it's a weather sheild. I don't want to ride in 110 degree Texas heat with no a/c. Besides, how could you get laid in it?
3.Security. How do you lock this thing up? Looks easy to steal.
4. Suspension. Is there any? The first good pothole may finish this thing off, or force the rider to visit the oral surgeon.
5. Safety & stupidity. We're dealing with people and something new that moves. Bad combination.
I see plenty of specialty and industrial applications as well as a home enthusiast market, but no one is going to redesign trillions of dollars of urban infrastructure for this thing.
AMD HAS this technology. Just an implementation of one of the SOI patents already held by AMD and IBM. And AMD is WAY ahead of Intel in producing SOI wafers. Let Intel crow, but AMD will have these transistors out the door first.
Yes, note that this is merely one implementation of SOI technology, which AMD and IBM have been working on for a few years, and which Intel has claimed was "worthless". AMD has plans for such devices to roll off the assembly lines in a year or two, and now Intel is claiming that they "discovered" it.
Not only was cworley wrong about this, he is wrong about AMD making "clone" processors of Intel. That hasn't happened since the 486, dumbass. You're about 5 years behind the technology curve.
I don't see why a palm cam with a cell phone modem couldn't be powered by a solar cell. What do you think the energy density of those 4 AAA batteries is, anyway? 'Tain't much. A small generator would also work fine, but those little bastards add a lot of effort to your pedaling.
Why not just a D battery adapter for the palm & cell? Have someone give you a new set every 6 or 8 hours. Or run the whole thing off a motorcycle battery (~10lbs for a small one) which should last all damn day.
There was an old board game my friends and I used to play called "Stock Market" If you played it well and long enough, you could actually run the game out of the money it came with. We were eventually making million dollar and billion dollar bills to keep playing. An excellent game for an example of how wealth is created.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read the article. Who among us could honestly say that we would not perhaps keep a copy of the DB on tape (or compressed on CD) and in a few months make some private inquiries to potential buyers? Depending on the size and detail of the DB, it could be worth hundreds of thousands of $$ to another retailer. I know I can be bought for less...
Thank you for pointing that out! The Internet does not belong to the American Gov't. Or any gov't. That's what makes it the only truly free and fair human creation on this silly planet. Bastions of free speech like China and Iraq regulate the Internet within their borders. 'nuff said.
Typical of most "authors" who view the rest of the world as mindless dolts who can't think for themselves. Amazingly enough, most people (even fairly stupid ones) actually have brains and know how to use them on occasion.
I believe the church used to use these same arguments to suppress dangerous ideas about the earth being round and such...
Once again the problem boils down to this: No one wants to take responsibility for raising their own children, they want the government to do it. I wasn't raised by the gov't, nor do I want my kids raised by the gov't. If parents would raise their damn kids right, they wouldn't have to worry about what their kids were doing. And I ain't talkin' 'bout religion, either. That stuff will mess them up more than violent video games will ever hope to. Teach 'em right from wrong, and teach 'em how to read at an early age. Oh, and pay attention to them occasionally. The look up to you. If you do this, then the issue of censorship, as well as most of society's other problems, fall by the wayside.
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Well I'm a gun owner and I've only killed one person. Funny thing is I did it with a heavy object (an old 8mm movie camera - crushed the skull of a mugger), not a gun.
So I suppose anyone with a heavy object that fits in their hand can be assumed to have killed at least one person.
All small objects over 2lbs are hereby banned.
This grid of memory circuits could be made so small that, based on the test junctions the researchers made, 1 million bits of information could fit in a square millimeter of paper-thin material.
That's a 1 micron square bit size. Pfft. We can do better than that with silicon.
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Maybe not in software engineering, but they were quite common back when I was in desktop support. Chicks dig the knight in shining armor who fixes their computer problems. Ah, those were the days.
Turns out we don't live in Hooterville after all, we live in Pixley.
Actually, one of the major problems in Semicon manufacturing is filling the spaces left AFTER etching. If you don't get a clean fill, you get void areas which play hell with your electrical properties. The 10nm holes are pretty, but show me an SEM or TEM image cross-section of the fill and I'll be impressed.
No, but I am only 3 hours from our southern neighbor. Believe it or not, there are a lot of us crazy folk who build our own houses. Especially out in the country. Now git off my land!
Contractor, schmontractor. I built my own house with my own two hands. It takes over a couple year's worth of weekends to do, but you get exactly what you want (or what you are willing to do,) and you pay as you go. Once built, it's paid for. Now I just have to finish paying for the 32 acres of land...
It's this kind of situation that leads to a change in music. That's how we got punk rock in the first place. There won't be a rebellion until there is something to rebel against.
Yes, the review shows the P4 2.4 GHZ being roughly equal in performance to an Athlon 1.73 GHZ chip (XP2100+). AMD gets the same power from nearly 700MHZ lower clock speed. (Nearly 1/3 lower!)
Yet Intel still claims to be the "performance leader" with lower clock-for-clock performance and higher cost per CPU.
Marketing, my friends. That's how you make the money.
Yes, I graduated after a short 7 years with a bachelor's degree in Marketing. A few years later, I was a network/PC technician. Now I'm a database administrator and web applications programmer. Another friend with a degree in business management is also a DBA/Sysadmin. Another friend has a history degree and is a hardware/network guru.
The moral is: Having a degree is important. It opens doors. What the degree is in is not so important. What you know (and who you impress) is more important.
But Intel does do this. In a slightly underhanded way. They offer cheaper prices to manufactures who don't use AMD processors. But now the performance/price advantages of AMD are starting to outweigh those discounts.
Why does Gateway keep flip-flopping between using AMD processors and not? The first time was because Intel offered them a $50 per CPU rebate if they dumped AMD, so they did, and then Intel reneged on the rebate. Eventually, Gateway's lawyers got tired and just went back to selling AMD. Until Intel came and offered them another rebate, which they are now apparently trying to renege on, but Gateway hired smarter lawyers this time.
AMD only announced this because Intel made their lame "breakthrough" announcement last week. Intel stock went up, AMD stock went down. So, AMD had to pull out one of their many similar "breakthrough" technologies and put it on the table to make their stock go back up. Announcements like this have NOTHING to do with technology and everything to do with impressing the really anazingly stupid market analysts.
You hit it right on the head. Here are the top problems I see with IT:
1. Stairs. Especially in Europe, where I see a potential huge market because of the design of their cities, they have a lot of stairs.
2. Weather. A car is more than transport, it's a weather sheild. I don't want to ride in 110 degree Texas heat with no a/c. Besides, how could you get laid in it?
3.Security. How do you lock this thing up? Looks easy to steal.
4. Suspension. Is there any? The first good pothole may finish this thing off, or force the rider to visit the oral surgeon.
5. Safety & stupidity. We're dealing with people and something new that moves. Bad combination.
I see plenty of specialty and industrial applications as well as a home enthusiast market, but no one is going to redesign trillions of dollars of urban infrastructure for this thing.
AMD HAS this technology. Just an implementation of one of the SOI patents already held by AMD and IBM. And AMD is WAY ahead of Intel in producing SOI wafers. Let Intel crow, but AMD will have these transistors out the door first.
Yes, note that this is merely one implementation of SOI technology, which AMD and IBM have been working on for a few years, and which Intel has claimed was "worthless". AMD has plans for such devices to roll off the assembly lines in a year or two, and now Intel is claiming that they "discovered" it.
More Intel Hype
AMD is closing two old 0.7 micron 6 inch wafer fabs that they've been trying to ditch for a long time.
Nothing to do with Microprocessors or newer flash technology is affected.
Sheesh. Get your facts straight. DOn't play into Intel's hands by spreading disaster rumors.
Hey dumbasses:
AMD is closing its oldest 0.7 micron flash fabs, not anything to do with newer flash or microprocessors.
Intel's ass is still grass.
Not only was cworley wrong about this, he is wrong about AMD making "clone" processors of Intel. That hasn't happened since the 486, dumbass. You're about 5 years behind the technology curve.
I don't see why a palm cam with a cell phone modem couldn't be powered by a solar cell. What do you think the energy density of those 4 AAA batteries is, anyway? 'Tain't much. A small generator would also work fine, but those little bastards add a lot of effort to your pedaling. Why not just a D battery adapter for the palm & cell? Have someone give you a new set every 6 or 8 hours. Or run the whole thing off a motorcycle battery (~10lbs for a small one) which should last all damn day.
There was an old board game my friends and I used to play called "Stock Market" If you played it well and long enough, you could actually run the game out of the money it came with. We were eventually making million dollar and billion dollar bills to keep playing. An excellent game for an example of how wealth is created.
But markets can grow. What was the market for computers in 1970? 1980? 1990? 2000?
This was the first thing I thought of when I read the article. Who among us could honestly say that we would not perhaps keep a copy of the DB on tape (or compressed on CD) and in a few months make some private inquiries to potential buyers? Depending on the size and detail of the DB, it could be worth hundreds of thousands of $$ to another retailer. I know I can be bought for less...
Thank you for pointing that out! The Internet does not belong to the American Gov't. Or any gov't. That's what makes it the only truly free and fair human creation on this silly planet. Bastions of free speech like China and Iraq regulate the Internet within their borders. 'nuff said.
Typical of most "authors" who view the rest of the world as mindless dolts who can't think for themselves. Amazingly enough, most people (even fairly stupid ones) actually have brains and know how to use them on occasion. I believe the church used to use these same arguments to suppress dangerous ideas about the earth being round and such...
Once again the problem boils down to this: No one wants to take responsibility for raising their own children, they want the government to do it. I wasn't raised by the gov't, nor do I want my kids raised by the gov't. If parents would raise their damn kids right, they wouldn't have to worry about what their kids were doing. And I ain't talkin' 'bout religion, either. That stuff will mess them up more than violent video games will ever hope to. Teach 'em right from wrong, and teach 'em how to read at an early age. Oh, and pay attention to them occasionally. The look up to you. If you do this, then the issue of censorship, as well as most of society's other problems, fall by the wayside.