Silicon dioxide is the all purpose dielectric in most current chips. It is slowly and painfully being replaced by "low K" materials between wires and "high K" materials under the gate electrodes. The transition to Low K/High K has been pushed out again and again but it is being used in some chips now. If the this new method of growing silicon dioxide is still in research, it seems doomed to reach production shortly after it is no longer needed.
When you create an account on a web site (your bank, ebay, paypal, your broker, whatever), you provide them with a username, password, and a whole bunch of information... why not have a field for "reverse-authentication string"?
Then every email they send to you, they include that string in the subject line.
You can actualy go one better today, without telling your bank what you are doing. Give your bank a unique email address. Never use that email address for anything else.
The odds of getting a phish on that email address are close to nil unless you or the bank gets hacked.
This is how I filter virtually all phishes to date. If it arrives on an address not known to the entity being represented, it's obviously a fake.
Unless you were to construct a nuclear power plant to directly heat the titanium oxide mixture using the reactor pile itself.
Unfortunatley, the world market for radioactive titanium is rather small.
You will need some sort of high temperature heat exchanger that will not, itself, become radioactive. I don't think water will do. Actually, you may have trouble just running the reactor that hot. I think you will need a gaseous core reactor.
The Sheffield was lost in the Falkland Islands conflict. It is popularly beleived that this was due to the alumiminum superstructure catching fire. However, it seems that the Sheffield did not have an aluminum superstructure and the Sheffield was lost for other reasons.
Global warming is not an extremist theory, it is a fact, unless you want to argue with decades of climate data. While it is still hotly debated whether this is because of CO2 emissions, natural cycles, volcanoes, sunspots, or whatever - it doesn't change the fact that the Earth's climate is changing.
The Earth's climate is always changing. We have been in a warming trend since the peek of the Little Ice Age. That's not news, at least to those who pay attention to such things. Unfortunately, the rhetoric has been dominated by questions about whether the climate is warming (never seriously in question) and whether the majority of scientists agree that the climate is warming (Who cares? Science is about evidence. It is not a popularity contest.)
The part that you have downplayed, the cause of global warming, is actually the important part, arguably the only important part. And the answer to that question, as always, henges on evidence. Too bad there seems little interest among the public or the popular press in discussing that evidence.
I took an example month's suite of edits, created an RJE job that streamed the gen config to a little used ATT Unix box on which I was self-teaching the coolness that was (and is) Unix.
On the Unix side, I piped the stream into a "sed" script with a file defining all of the edits. The entire round trip of the unedited file back into place with full edits on the mainframe took less than one hour and required no monitoring or work on my part other than initiating the job
But required another machine and another account for a job that could have been done more efficiently on the local machine. Seriously, did no one in your friend's group know how to program in REXX? That's the text processing engine of choice in an IBM mainframe environment. It's as if a group of people were hand editing files on a unix system (becuase they didn't know how to use sed, grep, perl, etc) until someone had the bright idea to ftp the files to a Windows machine and process the data with Word macros.
I'm not convinced that it does. What matters is light. Less light on a pixel means more noise. Small sensors are usually paired with small aperature lenses. They don't have to be. As long as each pixel of the sensor gets the same amount of light, it shouldn't matter how big the pixel is.
Do you know of another mechanism that would cause small sensors to be noisier?
That's really the only substantial advantage of using the telephone. It's actually a lousy way to convey detailed information. Email misinterpretation is usually because either the sender can't be bothered to write clearly or the reciver can't be bothered read for comprehension.
Telephone allows the receiver to ask clarifying questions and the receiver to test for comprehension. More often than not, though, it's a trap.
The receiver forgets what was said and has no record. The receiver says he understands and does not. The sender forgets to test for comprehension of all parts of the message or even to convey all parts of the message.
It irritates the hell out of me, when after taking great pains to write a clear and consice email, I get a "call me". The result is 30 minutes of time-wasting where half the message isn't sent and what is sent is remembered incorrectly or forgotten.
This is somewhat different from in-person conversations. There the sender can be sure that he has the receiver's attention and can use various visual aids like white boards.
As if proximity to the eyes isn't enough (the optic nerve is really part of the brain), brains need cooling. It would be difficult to adequately cool the brain if it was in the chest surrounded by a large mass of heat producing muscles and organs.
Some reason that cooling advantages of bipedelism permited the rapid growth in brain size of early humsans.
It's still not 100% efficient though. Some of the emissions are in the visible range. I.e, heating elements glow. Since the objective is heat (infrared), visible light is waste. It's the oposite problem for lightbulbs.
Actually, even for light bulbs, it depends on the purpose. Ez-bake ovens use a light bulb as the heat source.
NSFnet was a big deal. The Internet expanded to many, many sites that previously been excluded. Speeds went way up. But the creation of the Internet, it was not.
He helped in the creation of the Internet the only way that politicians ever do anything: he voted to fund it. And he never claimed to have done anything more than that.
Unfortunately, even that is much more than he did. The Internet began with ARPAnet in 1969! Al Gore helped secure funding for NSFnet. Now NSFnet was an important stage in the evolution of the Internet but voting to fund NSFnet does not equate to inventing the Internet, even if funding == invention.
HomeRF (Intel) vs 802.11 (Dell) DDR (Dell) vs RAMBUS (Intel) Itanium (Intel) vs x64 (Dell)
Sounds to me like Dell always follows Intel, unless Intel's choice is too risky. The last item is an excelent example. Itanium is risky so Dell wanted nothing of that. On the other hand, using non-Intel processors is risky so Dell just waited until Intel brought out 64bit x86 processors.
Dell isn't Intel's puppet. Dell is simply run by cowards and, most of the time, Wintel is the safest choice. Dell will follow wherever Intel leads, unless it's out on a limb.
My guess is that it's a Windows virus that looks for Linux ELF binaries and modifies them if it can write to them.
And, by exploting the "Windows" hole, infect Linux executables that would be unwriteable from a Linux user process. If you run as supervisor in Windows then, in principle, your Linux system is as vulnerable as your Windows. If you run as non-supervisor, you still must insure that Linux never executes any file writeable by a Windows user process.
The web began with Cern's browser, of course, but it was not the Web as we know it today. More of an improved gopher. NCSA Mosaic was the first graphical browser and that changed everything.
Netscape was just an improved NCSA Mosaic, albiet a hugely popular one. Smoother, faster, but network changing? I think not. Spyglass was an early ancestor of IE and, I think, AOL's browser but as itself it changed nothing.
in general makes life difficult for anyone *not* using a SCSI drive, which 3) is 90%+ of the population
That's being generous. SCSI CD Burners are now rare. Even "all scsi" Sun boxes use IDE CDROM drives and have for several years. SCSI DVD writers are nearly hypothetical. There are, I think, a few very expensive (kilobuck) professional drives and that's all. You will see a few reasonable looking units advertized on Pricewatch. But look closely and you will find that they are IDE drives with IDE SCSI adapters tacked on.
I would bet the 160w stereo sucks closer to 1000 at the plug there is a lot of excess heat.
If you actually maxed it out, sure. But 160W is quite loud. Too loud to be in the same room. Probably too loud to be in the same house. My 200W integrated amplifier hovers arround 1W most of the time, rarely reaching 2W. Even if the efficiency is only 10%, that's still much less than a modern desktop computer.
Does recovering from network failure or intial configuration involve attaching a notebook computer via serial cable or do I have to to find space/power to plug in a monitor and keyboard?
Isn't this really just a rebirth of 10-Base-5 Ethernet? What's old is new again...
Not quite. 10-Base-5, like 10-base-2 is ethernet on coax at BASEBAND. What Verizon is proposing is Ethernet on an RF carrier over coax. I.e, "broadband". But that's been done too. It was 10-Broad-36.
Verizon does not charge the recipient of a text message.
Yes, they do. I'm a Verizon customer. Up until last September, I was charged 1.5c per received message. I used to forward a copy of my personal emails to the phone because it was convenient and, as long as I wasn't forwarding spam, it was cheap. On September 1st, Verizon raised the price to 10c per message received. Naturally, I turned off the forwarding.
There are bundle deals but recieving isn't free with them either. You get a fixed number of messages that you can send or receive.
You know, I don't think the intented users of Google Page Creator are going to give an ass's ass whether the code it generates is compliant with the W3C HTML 4.01 Strict specification. They just want access to basic hosting and formatting.
Developers should always think of the future becuase the end user can only be relied on to think of the present. Breaking standards just because the end users don't notice a problem right now is evil and doesn't Google have a policy about that?
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Silicon dioxide is the all purpose dielectric in most current chips. It is slowly and painfully being replaced by "low K" materials between wires and "high K" materials under the gate electrodes. The transition to Low K/High K has been pushed out again and again but it is being used in some chips now. If the this new method of growing silicon dioxide is still in research, it seems doomed to reach production shortly after it is no longer needed.
When you create an account on a web site (your bank, ebay, paypal, your broker, whatever), you provide them with a username, password, and a whole bunch of information... why not have a field for "reverse-authentication string"?
Then every email they send to you, they include that string in the subject line.
You can actualy go one better today, without telling your bank what you are doing.
Give your bank a unique email address. Never use that email address for anything else.
The odds of getting a phish on that email address are close to nil unless you or the bank gets hacked.
This is how I filter virtually all phishes to date. If it arrives on an address not known to the entity being represented, it's obviously a fake.
Reminds me of a sig quote seen somewhere a long time ago.
"
Earth First!
We'll strip mine the other planets later.
"
The full force of the Slashdot effecting hitting NASA's server.
The rock? It's just a cover.
Unless you were to construct a nuclear power plant to directly heat the titanium oxide mixture using the reactor pile itself.
a ctor_systems.pdf
Unfortunatley, the world market for radioactive titanium is rather small.
You will need some sort of high temperature heat exchanger that will not, itself, become radioactive. I don't think water will do. Actually, you may have trouble just running the reactor that hot. I think you will need a gaseous core reactor.
http://gif.inel.gov/roadmap/pdfs/non-classical_re
That's rather beyond the current state of the art.
The Sheffield was lost in the Falkland Islands conflict. It is popularly beleived that this was due to the alumiminum superstructure catching fire. However, it seems that the Sheffield did not have an aluminum superstructure and the Sheffield was lost for other reasons.
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http://www.hazegray.org/faq/smn6.htm#F7
http://www.alfed.org.uk/templates/alfed/content.a
It is also worth noting that any metal can catch fire if you get it hot enough, even steel.
Global warming is not an extremist theory, it is a fact, unless you want to argue with decades of climate data. While it is still hotly debated whether this is because of CO2 emissions, natural cycles, volcanoes, sunspots, or whatever - it doesn't change the fact that the Earth's climate is changing.
The Earth's climate is always changing. We have been in a warming trend since the peek of the Little Ice Age.
That's not news, at least to those who pay attention to such things. Unfortunately, the rhetoric has been dominated by questions about whether the climate is warming (never seriously in question) and whether the majority of scientists agree that the climate is warming (Who cares? Science is about evidence. It is not a popularity contest.)
The part that you have downplayed, the cause of global warming, is actually the important part, arguably the only important part. And the answer to that question, as always, henges on evidence. Too bad there seems little interest among the public or the popular press in discussing that evidence.
I took an example month's suite of edits, created an RJE job that streamed the gen config to a little used ATT Unix box on which I was self-teaching the coolness that was (and is) Unix.
On the Unix side, I piped the stream into a "sed" script with a file defining all of the edits. The entire round trip of the unedited file back into place with full edits on the mainframe took less than one hour and required no monitoring or work on my part other than initiating the job
But required another machine and another account for a job that could have been done more efficiently on the local machine. Seriously, did no one in your friend's group know how to program in REXX? That's the text processing engine of choice in an IBM mainframe environment. It's as if a group of people were hand editing files on a unix system (becuase they didn't know how to use sed, grep, perl, etc) until someone had the bright idea to ftp the files to a Windows machine and process the data with Word macros.
Is Silicon Valley Reproducible?
Not without a large influx of desperate women.
Size matters when it comes to sensors
I'm not convinced that it does. What matters is light. Less light on a pixel means more noise. Small sensors are usually paired with small aperature lenses.
They don't have to be. As long as each pixel of the sensor gets the same amount of light, it shouldn't matter how big the pixel is.
Do you know of another mechanism that would cause small sensors to be noisier?
That's really the only substantial advantage of using the telephone. It's actually a lousy way to convey detailed information. Email misinterpretation is usually because either the sender can't be bothered to write clearly or the reciver can't be bothered read for comprehension.
Telephone allows the receiver to ask clarifying questions and the receiver to test for comprehension. More often than not, though, it's a trap.
The receiver forgets what was said and has no record.
The receiver says he understands and does not.
The sender forgets to test for comprehension of all parts of the message or even to convey all parts of the message.
It irritates the hell out of me, when after taking great pains to write a clear and consice email, I get a "call me". The result is 30 minutes of time-wasting where half the message isn't sent and what is sent is remembered incorrectly or forgotten.
This is somewhat different from in-person conversations. There the sender can be sure that he has the receiver's attention and can use various visual aids like white boards.
As if proximity to the eyes isn't enough (the optic nerve is really part of the brain), brains need cooling. It would be difficult to adequately cool the brain if it was in the chest surrounded by a large mass of heat producing muscles and organs.
. htmlp apweb.htm
Some reason that cooling advantages of bipedelism permited the rapid growth in brain size of early humsans.
http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/human
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/people/faculty/falk/rad
(These probably aren't the best referencs available but they came up in a quick google)
It's still not 100% efficient though. Some of the emissions are in the visible range. I.e, heating elements glow. Since the objective is heat (infrared), visible light is waste. It's the oposite problem for lightbulbs.
Actually, even for light bulbs, it depends on the purpose. Ez-bake ovens use a light bulb as the heat source.
Or, do you have a memory of making day to day use of the Internets prior to 1988?
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Yes, in fact, I do. As do many others. We aren't all noobs or highschool kids.
See:
http://www.thocp.net/reference/internet/internet2
NSFnet was a big deal. The Internet expanded to many, many sites that previously been excluded. Speeds went way up. But the creation of the Internet, it was not.
He helped in the creation of the Internet the only way that politicians ever do anything: he voted to fund it. And he never claimed to have done anything more than that.
Unfortunately, even that is much more than he did. The Internet began with ARPAnet in 1969! Al Gore helped secure funding for NSFnet. Now NSFnet was an important stage in the evolution of the Internet but voting to fund NSFnet does not equate to inventing the Internet, even if funding == invention.
HomeRF (Intel) vs 802.11 (Dell)
DDR (Dell) vs RAMBUS (Intel)
Itanium (Intel) vs x64 (Dell)
Sounds to me like Dell always follows Intel, unless Intel's choice is too risky. The last item is an excelent example. Itanium is risky so Dell wanted nothing of that. On the other hand, using non-Intel processors is risky so Dell just waited until Intel brought out 64bit x86 processors.
Dell isn't Intel's puppet. Dell is simply run by cowards and, most of the time, Wintel is the safest choice. Dell will follow wherever Intel leads, unless it's out on a limb.
So Windows has support for ext3/reiserfs? Indeed, how does it get access to Linux directories at all?
By putting file system code in the virus. It's not like the source is unavailable.
And, in you didn't know, there already exists an ext2 fs for Windows.
My guess is that it's a Windows virus that looks for Linux ELF binaries and modifies them if it can write to them.
And, by exploting the "Windows" hole, infect Linux executables that would be unwriteable from a Linux user process. If you run as supervisor in Windows then, in principle, your Linux system is as vulnerable as your Windows. If you run as non-supervisor, you still must insure that Linux never executes any file writeable by a Windows user process.
The web began with Cern's browser, of course, but it was not the Web as we know it today. More of an improved gopher. NCSA Mosaic was the first graphical browser and that changed everything.
Netscape was just an improved NCSA Mosaic, albiet a hugely popular one. Smoother, faster, but network changing? I think not. Spyglass was an early ancestor of IE and, I think, AOL's browser but as itself it changed nothing.
in general makes life difficult for anyone *not* using a SCSI drive, which 3) is 90%+ of the population
That's being generous. SCSI CD Burners are now rare. Even "all scsi" Sun boxes use IDE CDROM drives and have for several years. SCSI DVD writers are nearly hypothetical. There are, I think, a few very expensive (kilobuck) professional drives and that's all. You will see a few reasonable looking units advertized on Pricewatch. But look closely and you will find that they are IDE drives with IDE SCSI adapters tacked on.
I would bet the 160w stereo sucks closer to 1000 at the plug there is a lot of excess heat.
If you actually maxed it out, sure. But 160W is quite loud. Too loud to be in the same room. Probably too loud to be in the same house. My 200W integrated amplifier hovers arround 1W most of the time, rarely reaching 2W. Even if the efficiency is only 10%, that's still much less than a modern desktop computer.
Does recovering from network failure or intial configuration involve attaching a notebook computer via serial cable or do I have to to find space/power to plug in a monitor and keyboard?
Isn't this really just a rebirth of 10-Base-5 Ethernet? What's old is new again...
Not quite. 10-Base-5, like 10-base-2 is ethernet on coax at BASEBAND. What Verizon is proposing is Ethernet on an RF carrier over coax. I.e, "broadband". But that's been done too. It was 10-Broad-36.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10broad36
Verizon does not charge the recipient of a text message.
Yes, they do. I'm a Verizon customer. Up until last September, I was charged 1.5c per received message. I used to forward a copy of my personal emails to the phone because it was convenient and, as long as I wasn't forwarding spam, it was cheap. On September 1st, Verizon raised the price to 10c per message received. Naturally, I turned off the forwarding.
There are bundle deals but recieving isn't free with them either. You get a fixed number of messages that you can send or receive.
You know, I don't think the intented users of Google Page Creator are going to give an ass's ass whether the code it generates is compliant with the W3C HTML 4.01 Strict specification. They just want access to basic hosting and formatting.
Developers should always think of the future becuase the end user can only be relied on to think of the present. Breaking standards just because the end users don't notice a problem right now is evil and doesn't Google have a policy about that?