this is basically the equivalent of transferring the ENTIRE encyclopedia britannica in 15 seconds.
From the article: "At that speed, KPNQwest's array of routers and switches could send and receive all of the data contained in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than a quarter of a second."
Around here, at a certain new/used record store, I can get used CDs starting at 25 cents -- hundereds of them. Also 50 cents, $1, $2.50 and $5 price points if they think the CDs in question will go for that price.
The reason there is a bad reputation in the nuke industry is cost-cutting, pure and simple.
The nuke industry has the best safety record of the entire American power industry.
Running equipment to the point of failure, minimal staffing, letting inspections slide...
?!?
with a set of nuclear anchors bolstering the grid in times of peak demand - and selling the power abroad in low demand.
You're, um, going to ship the excess power out of the country? Wouldn't that be kind of expensive? Since nuclear is a base power technology, how about if we build just enough plants to cover the base demand and use gas turbines and solid oxide fuel cells (they convert natural gas directly to electricity) for medium and peak power.
Here are a couple of excellent resources for learning about nuclear power:
This would be great for prisons that want to help, or allow, their "clientelle" to get on the net. Maybe a neat spinoff of the Prisoner's Literature Project could be the Prisoner's Internet Access Project.
Amanda Hawes of San Jose, Calif., has represented semiconductor employees in Silicon Valley in workers' compensation complaints, but not in lawsuits. She is married to the leader of a group known as the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
Electronic News (1991), August 25, 1997 v43 n2182 p31(1)
His name is Ted Smith.
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if you lived in the Bay Area and ever read the Guardian, you would know that it is a genuinely investigative paper.... The Guardian is progressive, unabashedly leftist, and yes, often covers news and features of interest to the non-heterosexual community.
I've lived in SF and read the Guardian every week when I lived there. As an activist, I have personally been written about sympathetically in the Guardian several times.
The Guardian is sensationalist. It's purpose is to sell gullible readers to advertizers and it follows a strict formula to that end. It is a member of the AAN, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Compare it to the other papers in the AAN and grok the formula: run "investigative" stories about favorite local "bad guy" industry(ies) featuring lots of quotes from plaintiff attorneys, testimony by allegedly injured parties, selective presentation of facts and a strong human interest slant; if "alternative lifestyles" are popular in the area, act as a cheerleader for them/imply that evil traditionalists are out to suppress same; run sympathetic stories about local activists; etc.
It's a good cop/bad cop game with maximum profits at the core. Feel repressed by the "conservative" and cold, unfeeling dailies. Come on over to the "leftist" alternative newsweeklies. The Chronicle and Examiner could be said to be Tweedledee-and-Tweedledum, but its just as truthful to say the ChronEx is Tweedledee and the SFWeekly/Guardian is Tweedledum.
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Gimme a break man. This comparison is a lame example of 'how to lie with statistics'.
ABSTRACT: Three recent lawsuits are focusing public attention on the environmental and occupational health effects of the world's largest and fastest growing manufacturing sector-the $150 billion semiconductor industry. The suits allege that exposure to toxic chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing plants led to adverse health effects such as miscarriage and cancer among workers. To manufacture computer components, the semiconductor industry uses large amounts of hazardous chemicals including hydrochloric acid, toxic metals and gases, and volatile solvents. Little is known about the long-term health consequences of exposure to chemicals by semiconductor workers. According to industry critics, the semiconductor industry also adversely impacts the environment, causing groundwater and air pollution and generating toxic waste as a by-product of the semiconductor manufacturing process. In contrast, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics shows the semiconductor industry as having a worker illness rate of about one-third of the average of all manufacturers, and advocates defend the industry, pointing to recent research collaborations and product replacement as proof that semiconductor manufacturers adequately protect both their employees and the environment.
AUTHOR: Chepesiuk R TITLE: Where the chips fall: environmental health in the semiconductor industry. SOURCE: Environ Health Perspect (EI0), 1999 Sep; 107 (9): A452-7
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The average rate of cancer in males is 44.66% (I'm assuming that, at least historically, a significant majority of the workers were male). This would be about 12,000 of the 25,000 worker deaths IBM has on file. Compare this with the actual rate of cancer deaths (The file now shows that 8,000 of the 25,000 deaths were due to some form of cancer, Hawes said.) and it appears that working at IBM reduces the risk of cancer by 33%.
Those are not the only bad numbers. How about this example from the article: The promise of HDTV, crystal-clear images with more than double the resolution of today's televisions...
According to this article, HDTV has six times the resolution. 1920 x 1080 vs. 720 x 486 (2,073,600 pixels vs. 349,920 pixels).
Did anyone else notice that the aspect ratio(16x9) of these HDTV things is the same as the aspect ratio of the black monoliths from 2001, a Space Odyssey? We've found the secret of human intelligence -- HDTVs showed up at the dawn of humanity to teach us how to make tools, then disappeared, only to be rediscovered by us in...2001!
silk the sexy material was not mentioned in the press release. SiLK the dialectric was mentioned in the press release.
Also, the new techique for applying SiLK works ostensibly at any manufacturing size, not just.13u. The reason the press release mentioned.13u was IBM happened to also happened to announce a.13u chip the same day. Not related (but equally cool).
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I am thinking of getting forehead implants so I can look really brainy.
I don't think having enormous breasts on your forehead would make you look brainy.
Better link for Plus Corporation.
I think Compaq has the smallest version at 4.5, XGA, 800 lumens...
Plus corporation just announced the world's smallest projector: 2.9 lbs., 7 x 9 x 1.9", XGA, 800 lumens, no price yet.
this is basically the equivalent of transferring the ENTIRE encyclopedia britannica in 15 seconds.
From the article:
"At that speed, KPNQwest's array of routers and switches could send and receive all of the data contained in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than a quarter of a second."
Around here, at a certain new/used record store, I can get used CDs starting at 25 cents -- hundereds of them. Also 50 cents, $1, $2.50 and $5 price points if they think the CDs in question will go for that price.
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We've all seen nuclear power fail,
What are you referring to?
The reason there is a bad reputation in the nuke industry is cost-cutting, pure and simple.
The nuke industry has the best safety record of the entire American power industry.
Running equipment to the point of failure, minimal staffing, letting inspections slide...
?!?
with a set of nuclear anchors bolstering the grid in times of peak demand - and selling the power abroad in low demand.
You're, um, going to ship the excess power out of the country? Wouldn't that be kind of expensive? Since nuclear is a base power technology, how about if we build just enough plants to cover the base demand and use gas turbines and solid oxide fuel cells (they convert natural gas directly to electricity) for medium and peak power.
Here are a couple of excellent resources for learning about nuclear power:
The nuclear energy option : an alternative for the 90s Bernard L. Cohen
(used to be called Before its too late : a scientist's case for nuclear energy)
The war against the atom Samuel McCracken
I thought it was pu-235 that was of interest for nuclear warfare.
That would be U-235. I haven't heard of Pu-235.
This would be great for prisons that want to help, or allow, their "clientelle" to get on the net. Maybe a neat spinoff of the Prisoner's Literature Project could be the Prisoner's Internet Access Project.
Well. You don't how to spell "misogynistic"
That's true. I must have been thinking of "dyspepsia".
and I'm confused why you are using this term in this context, considering the word means "having or showing a hatred and distrust of women"...
Then you should check out their website. It should clear things up for you.
This would've made a great short...like all the other Linux stocks.
Amanda Hawes of San Jose, Calif., has represented semiconductor employees in Silicon Valley in workers' compensation complaints, but not in lawsuits. She is married to the leader of a group known as the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
Electronic News (1991), August 25, 1997 v43 n2182 p31(1)
His name is Ted Smith.
if you lived in the Bay Area and ever read the Guardian, you would know that it is a genuinely investigative paper.... The Guardian is progressive, unabashedly leftist, and yes, often covers news and features of interest to the non-heterosexual community.
I've lived in SF and read the Guardian every week when I lived there. As an activist, I have personally been written about sympathetically in the Guardian several times.
The Guardian is sensationalist. It's purpose is to sell gullible readers to advertizers and it follows a strict formula to that end. It is a member of the AAN, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Compare it to the other papers in the AAN and grok the formula: run "investigative" stories about favorite local "bad guy" industry(ies) featuring lots of quotes from plaintiff attorneys, testimony by allegedly injured parties, selective presentation of facts and a strong human interest slant; if "alternative lifestyles" are popular in the area, act as a cheerleader for them/imply that evil traditionalists are out to suppress same; run sympathetic stories about local activists; etc.
It's a good cop/bad cop game with maximum profits at the core. Feel repressed by the "conservative" and cold, unfeeling dailies. Come on over to the "leftist" alternative newsweeklies. The Chronicle and Examiner could be said to be Tweedledee-and-Tweedledum, but its just as truthful to say the ChronEx is Tweedledee and the SFWeekly/Guardian is Tweedledum.
Gimme a break man. This comparison is a lame example of 'how to lie with statistics'.
ABSTRACT:
Three recent lawsuits are focusing public attention on the environmental and occupational health effects of the world's largest and fastest growing manufacturing sector-the $150 billion semiconductor industry. The suits allege that exposure to toxic chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing plants led to adverse health effects such as miscarriage and cancer among workers. To manufacture computer components, the semiconductor industry uses large amounts of hazardous chemicals including hydrochloric acid, toxic metals and gases, and volatile solvents. Little is known about the long-term health consequences of exposure to chemicals by semiconductor workers. According to industry critics, the semiconductor industry also adversely impacts the environment, causing groundwater and air pollution and generating toxic waste as a by-product of the semiconductor manufacturing process. In contrast, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics shows the semiconductor industry as having a worker illness rate of about one-third of the average of all manufacturers, and advocates defend the industry, pointing to recent research collaborations and product replacement as proof that semiconductor manufacturers adequately protect both their employees and the environment.
AUTHOR: Chepesiuk R
TITLE: Where the chips fall: environmental health in the semiconductor industry.
SOURCE: Environ Health Perspect (EI0), 1999 Sep; 107 (9): A452-7
The average rate of cancer in males is 44.66% (I'm assuming that, at least historically, a significant majority of the workers were male). This would be about 12,000 of the 25,000 worker deaths IBM has on file. Compare this with the actual rate of cancer deaths (The file now shows that 8,000 of the 25,000 deaths were due to some form of cancer, Hawes said.) and it appears that working at IBM reduces the risk of cancer by 33%.
Roughly 199 million miles from where you sit...
Whoa there, pardner! How could you know where I'm sitting?
Sengan -- you're alive! When was the last time you posted? A year ago?
Another image is the "discontinuity" concept, proposed by Vinge (" Marooned in Real Time ") and, to a lesser extent, by Brin.
I don't know about Brin, but Vernor Vinge called it the singularity (technological singularity).
People tell me that Moog is pronounced like rogue and hoag. Can anyone confirm this?
no, monoliths are 1 x 4 x 9 (and presumably more in higher dimensions
Yer right. Sorry. I'm an idiot today.
Those are not the only bad numbers. How about this example from the article:
The promise of HDTV, crystal-clear images with more than double the resolution of today's televisions...
According to this article, HDTV has six times the resolution. 1920 x 1080 vs. 720 x 486 (2,073,600 pixels vs. 349,920 pixels).
Did anyone else notice that the aspect ratio(16x9) of these HDTV things is the same as the aspect ratio of the black monoliths from 2001, a Space Odyssey? We've found the secret of human intelligence -- HDTVs showed up at the dawn of humanity to teach us how to make tools, then disappeared, only to be rediscovered by us in...2001!
This is all being taken from the MLA writters ref. by diane hacker 2nd ed....
That would be Diana Hacker. She also wrote The Bedford Handbook For Writers and Rules For Writers.
They didn't mention A Brief History of Wearable Computing.
Read the article. This is a low-K dielectric with the trade name "SILK" (probably an acronym).
Yes. Good advice. Read the article. It's SiLK, not SILK.
Even better advice would be to read IBM's non-Yahooed version.
silk the sexy material was not mentioned in the press release. SiLK the dialectric was mentioned in the press release.
.13u. The reason the press release mentioned .13u was IBM happened to also happened to announce a .13u chip the same day. Not related (but equally cool).
Also, the new techique for applying SiLK works ostensibly at any manufacturing size, not just
Here's the non-Yahoo link:
http://www.chips.ibm.com/news/200 0/0403_lowk.html