Thankfully when you need a new board, a link will come up to Epson.com to buy more.
In all seriousness, I find it interesting that this process cuts down "a large volume of photoresist, developer, etchants, stripping agents and other chemicals" needed for the process.
However, is this based on earlier processes or IBM's improvements in recent years?
In 2001. "Michael Cummings, James Fuller, Jr., Timothy Krush, Mike Longo, Thomas Lyons, Curt Miller, Paul Speranza, William Wike, James Wilson, and Michael Wozniak of Endicott, New York, share $50,000 for developing and qualifying a new process that eliminated solvent use from the manufacture of ultra fine pitch (UFP) wire bond chip carrier products. A first in the industry, the team's innovations included the investigation and qualification of a dry film resist that achieves UFP's stringent photolithography specifications, while being compatible with existing printed wire board manufacturing steps. Benefits include, on an annual basis, avoiding 5.2 million pounds of chemical use, 5.6 million pounds of industrial and hazardous waste generation and off-site transport, and 110,000 pounds of process air emissions while saving over $5.6 million."
Pompeii was just huge. It's the size of a small town. I was there for two whole days and still didn't get a chance to see everything. The first day I walked around pretty much by myself. The next day I took these girls from Canada who were staying at my hostel and sort of gave them the highlights of Pompeii. Company aside, the second day was much more interesting. The moral is, these AR/VR/3D devices could link up to GPS and show were most people have been so that in extremely large sites, if you're time is limited to just a couple of hours, you can hit the highlights. Not necessarily a guided tour, more of an interface that lets you decide, based on your requirements, what would interest you.
Has anyone combined this with other falling-object problems?
For example, if one butters one side of the paper, will it still land face down, even if it's floating about?
Since cats fall on their feet, what happens if you wrap playing cards on each of their legs? Will their happy flight downwards be interrupted by randomly flying limbs?
What if you wrap the cat in a piece of paper that has been formed to make a Moebius strip, butter the other side of the animal, then tie it together to another cat? I suspect this may be the way to create time travel or a perpetual motion machine.
I hereby ask everyone to funnel funds towards this dynamic Cat, Toast, and Paper Research. I approximate we have about 4 years to prepare to salute our new Paper Machie Strawberry Jelly Cat Overlords.
$250,000 is one thing; $2,500,000 is quite another. And probably a waste of money? More like definitely. How many announcement Superbowl ads have ever been effective?
Apple Macintosh?
The rest of what you suggest is more reasonable, but I would wait a little longer than you suggest before having another round of fundraising.
Consumers need repetition. If they see messages in succession over a several week/month period will prove more effective than every 3 or 4 months.
18,000,000 bars checked. (One for every 75 people.) That's not bad. That would be the equivalent of 3.9 million bars in the U.S.*
18,000 bars need "rectification." That probably means they were fined and told to do X, Y, and Z. Only 1% of bars needed to be rectified. These bars remained open.
1,600 bars were completely shut down. That means out of all the bars, 0.0089% were shut down. One out of every 1,000 were fined/rectified. 1 out of every 11,250 were shut down. Why were they fined or shut down?
"...allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations......Porn, gambling, violence and similar problems..."
So, the issue here is, not censorship, but that the Chinese Government regulates internet bars, and that some bars allowed children to do everything from play violent video games (admittedly not that big on an issue) to see explicit sex videos (not sure any parent would want their 7-yr old doing that).
Yes the parents should've checked the bars, but hey, so did the government. And now because of one parent's lousy parenting (not checking to see what their kid did), the government stepped in. And did this on very rare occasions.
Frankly, I don't see what the fuss is about.
BONUS NEWS@: The Internet Society of China recently released a blacklist of 112 internet protocol (IP) addresses of spam servers.
* Metric Conversion: 4.5 Libraries of Congress / Volkswagen.
Not to make your comment worthless, but it's not "interesting", moderators. We're talking about a 15-year time period (where real trends are measured at least in 50 years, if not 50,000). Over the past 15 years here, in beautiful, exciting Delaware (USA), we've had some mild winters but we've also had some cold winters with lots of snow. Ask ten people in the Northeast about the biggest storm we've had in the past 10 years (all which broke records) and you'll get 10 different answers. Last winter was really snowy, but we had one in 1996 I believe (maybe?) where schools closed because temperatures dropped to 255 Kelvin, er 0 degrees, and below and remained there for a week. Sadly, no one's regional reports are really going to establish anything.
That being said, the driest, hottest, summers in the past couple of years around here have been followed by colder, wet winters. This summer was relatively mild, and certainly wet enough. I expect this winter then to be mild and with little precipitation.
For those that forgot who she is, the original Ellen Feiss fansite, EllenFeiss.net details her story. Disclaimer: I know the guy who made that site.
In related news, I think it would be worthwhile for Firefox to advertise in the Wall Street Journal or the Economist as well, just because those two publications are read by decision makers in companies. Unfortunately, TV ads will run quite a bit more, but why not a SuperBowl ad? It's not until February. My guess is that it's probably a waste of money. If I were in charge, I would do an ad on The Economist, advertise on NPR (no one there likes businesses anyway), and then gather another round of funding this time from businesses, who can easily give $100-1,000, especially if it is to a non-profit, to have a ridiculous week-long blitz in the Ny Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune.
I mean there's some stringing together of scenes, but it's not as expansive as, say, Red vs. Blue. It's a little bit more like Warthog jump, where it's just scenes from a game used to convey a different message. That's not to say I didn't like it, I just expected it to be a lot different.
OK, ok, a bonus Snoop Dogg joke.
Q. What does Snoop Dogg use to keep his clothes bright and white? A. Bleeoch!!
No wonder. I was heading to lunch today and I drove past Matt Sauper's Chevrolet, and there was the Internet with that new blonde girlfriend of it. I hear she's only in college. As I was parking at the sandwich place, there they went, speeding by me. The Internet apparently bought a solid gold Corvette convertible. At least I thought it was him: the license plate said HTTPIMP.
Which always made me wonder, does the USDOJ use Linux at all after hounding Microsoft for so long? Netcraft indicates Solaris for their web server, so that could be good news... But what are the clerks running? I wouldn't be surprised if they were still running terminals.
More information on these hobbit-sized wonders can be found at Scientific American which runs a Q&A with Dr. Brown. As expected, it's a bit more in-depth than "Hobbits Found!"
Should large retailers like Best Buy and others be afraid of this model?
Simple answer: No.
The major disadvantage of any "Sony" or "Panasonic" or "Tommy Hilfiger" branded store is that you're limited to just that store's brands. That automatically cuts down a lot on selection, and frankly, I could care less about shopping at a store that carried only Brand Z. Now, with Apple, it doesn't matter, because Apple lives in this isolated (shiny, glossy) Ivory (G5) Tower where by design, everything is Apple! Connect your Apple iPod to your iMac and listen to iTunes while chatting on iChat with your iSight etc. etc. etc. etc. This doesn't work as well for Sony and much less for brands that are not brands at all (frankly, I'm surprised Gateway is still even in business).
These brand stores have been around for a long time, just not for PCs. If anything, they work as sort of a Branding Litmus test. Note here: we're not talking about the brand, or the product, or the features, or the service, but The Brand(TM) in the classic business sense, that is, what does "Ford" or "Nike" or "Post Cereal" mean to somebody. If your Brand(TM) is exciting, then those stores will help bolster it, especially if your store is put in high profile, mass-market (but gaudily touristy) locales. Think of all the stores in Times Square. Suddenly, Toys 'R' Us, Sanrio, Cold Stone, etc. are all a bit more high-profile because now Grandma goes back to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska and tells the grandkids of this place she had ice cream in New York City and wow! was it neat etc. etc. And the truth is, many of these stores willingly refuse to profit on these locations, or, knowing that profitability is not likely, charge a huge amount on their goods to at least cut down on losses. So now the Hitachi store in New York City lost $150,000 last year but, hey, that's not bad considering it's a store IN NEW YORK CITY! and that's pretty exciting. Apple is doing something very similar. It started out in major markets, then hit secondary well-off markets (ritzy suburbs in Baltimore, Jersey, etc.). Now they're making their way into the local mall. Fashionable Brands like Sony, Apple, Alienware, Bose, Svarowski, etc. can do well in these. (Note, apparently in my example fashionable means "Overpriced"). Unfashionable brands like Gateway, Aiwa, Timex may not do as well.
So, no, I would not worry if I was Best Buy. If anything, Best Buy will now be helped by Sony stores, as people go into the Sony store, see the MSRP $4999 Wega XBR HDVDDHDHD-SACD Orgasmaplasmatron, are astounded, then are even more astounded when they see it at Best Buy for $3449 (plus you get a Day After Tomorrow DVD) and finally decide to go with Sony over JVC in their $400 TV purchase just because Sony opened up a store between The Gap and Starbucks at the mall.
Isn't that what their "Extreme!!!" edition is? I'll admit I'm not following CPU information at all, but I was pricing some Dell systems for their crazy sale this past week and one option was a Pentium "Extreme!!!" for $400 more, with no clue as to what made it "Extreme!!!"
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Thankfully when you need a new board, a link will come up to Epson.com to buy more.
In all seriousness, I find it interesting that this process cuts down "a large volume of photoresist, developer, etchants, stripping agents and other chemicals" needed for the process.
However, is this based on earlier processes or IBM's improvements in recent years?
In 2001 . "Michael Cummings, James Fuller, Jr., Timothy Krush, Mike Longo, Thomas Lyons, Curt Miller, Paul Speranza, William Wike, James Wilson, and Michael Wozniak of Endicott, New York, share $50,000 for developing and qualifying a new process that eliminated solvent use from the manufacture of ultra fine pitch (UFP) wire bond chip carrier products. A first in the industry, the team's innovations included the investigation and qualification of a dry film resist that achieves UFP's stringent photolithography specifications, while being compatible with existing printed wire board manufacturing steps. Benefits include, on an annual basis, avoiding 5.2 million pounds of chemical use, 5.6 million pounds of industrial and hazardous waste generation and off-site transport, and 110,000 pounds of process air emissions while saving over $5.6 million."
More info on here as well.
Pompeii was just huge. It's the size of a small town. I was there for two whole days and still didn't get a chance to see everything. The first day I walked around pretty much by myself. The next day I took these girls from Canada who were staying at my hostel and sort of gave them the highlights of Pompeii. Company aside, the second day was much more interesting. The moral is, these AR/VR/3D devices could link up to GPS and show were most people have been so that in extremely large sites, if you're time is limited to just a couple of hours, you can hit the highlights. Not necessarily a guided tour, more of an interface that lets you decide, based on your requirements, what would interest you.
So you're predicting a Bush victory?
*ducks*
Netcraft confirms! The old NetBSD logo is dead!
Has anyone combined this with other falling-object problems?
For example, if one butters one side of the paper, will it still land face down, even if it's floating about?
Since cats fall on their feet, what happens if you wrap playing cards on each of their legs? Will their happy flight downwards be interrupted by randomly flying limbs?
What if you wrap the cat in a piece of paper that has been formed to make a Moebius strip, butter the other side of the animal, then tie it together to another cat? I suspect this may be the way to create time travel or a perpetual motion machine.
I hereby ask everyone to funnel funds towards this dynamic Cat, Toast, and Paper Research. I approximate we have about 4 years to prepare to salute our new Paper Machie Strawberry Jelly Cat Overlords.
When I saw the story I said to myself, "Huh, they didn't mention the Goatse Man pumpkin."
How relieved I was to find it to be the first post as I scrolled down.
I salute you, fellow goatsephiliac.
Apple Macintosh?
Consumers need repetition. If they see messages in succession over a several week/month period will prove more effective than every 3 or 4 months.
1,350,000,000 Chinese. (Give or take.)
...Porn, gambling, violence and similar problems..."
18,000,000 bars checked. (One for every 75 people.) That's not bad. That would be the equivalent of 3.9 million bars in the U.S.*
18,000 bars need "rectification." That probably means they were fined and told to do X, Y, and Z. Only 1% of bars needed to be rectified. These bars remained open.
1,600 bars were completely shut down. That means out of all the bars, 0.0089% were shut down. One out of every 1,000 were fined/rectified. 1 out of every 11,250 were shut down. Why were they fined or shut down?
"...allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations...
So, the issue here is, not censorship, but that the Chinese Government regulates internet bars, and that some bars allowed children to do everything from play violent video games (admittedly not that big on an issue) to see explicit sex videos (not sure any parent would want their 7-yr old doing that).
Yes the parents should've checked the bars, but hey, so did the government. And now because of one parent's lousy parenting (not checking to see what their kid did), the government stepped in. And did this on very rare occasions.
Frankly, I don't see what the fuss is about.
BONUS NEWS@: The Internet Society of China recently released a blacklist of 112 internet protocol (IP) addresses of spam servers.
* Metric Conversion: 4.5 Libraries of Congress / Volkswagen.
That link is an excerpt from the article in the submission. A bit more detailed into her thoughts on it. Very interesting.
Bob Porter: We'll be getting hiring these people here... First, Ms. Natalie Jere... Jere... Jere... Jeregoingtobe hired immediately, anyway.
Not to make your comment worthless, but it's not "interesting", moderators. We're talking about a 15-year time period (where real trends are measured at least in 50 years, if not 50,000). Over the past 15 years here, in beautiful, exciting Delaware (USA), we've had some mild winters but we've also had some cold winters with lots of snow. Ask ten people in the Northeast about the biggest storm we've had in the past 10 years (all which broke records) and you'll get 10 different answers. Last winter was really snowy, but we had one in 1996 I believe (maybe?) where schools closed because temperatures dropped to 255 Kelvin, er 0 degrees, and below and remained there for a week. Sadly, no one's regional reports are really going to establish anything.
That being said, the driest, hottest, summers in the past couple of years around here have been followed by colder, wet winters. This summer was relatively mild, and certainly wet enough. I expect this winter then to be mild and with little precipitation.
In other words, really boring.
For those that forgot who she is, the original Ellen Feiss fansite, EllenFeiss.net details her story. Disclaimer: I know the guy who made that site.
In related news, I think it would be worthwhile for Firefox to advertise in the Wall Street Journal or the Economist as well, just because those two publications are read by decision makers in companies. Unfortunately, TV ads will run quite a bit more, but why not a SuperBowl ad? It's not until February. My guess is that it's probably a waste of money. If I were in charge, I would do an ad on The Economist, advertise on NPR (no one there likes businesses anyway), and then gather another round of funding this time from businesses, who can easily give $100-1,000, especially if it is to a non-profit, to have a ridiculous week-long blitz in the Ny Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune.
I mean there's some stringing together of scenes, but it's not as expansive as, say, Red vs. Blue. It's a little bit more like Warthog jump, where it's just scenes from a game used to convey a different message. That's not to say I didn't like it, I just expected it to be a lot different.
OK, ok, a bonus Snoop Dogg joke.
Q. What does Snoop Dogg use to keep his clothes bright and white?
A. Bleeoch!!
*Ahem.*
No wonder. I was heading to lunch today and I drove past Matt Sauper's Chevrolet, and there was the Internet with that new blonde girlfriend of it. I hear she's only in college. As I was parking at the sandwich place, there they went, speeding by me. The Internet apparently bought a solid gold Corvette convertible. At least I thought it was him: the license plate said HTTPIMP.
Which always made me wonder, does the USDOJ use Linux at all after hounding Microsoft for so long? Netcraft indicates Solaris for their web server, so that could be good news... But what are the clerks running? I wouldn't be surprised if they were still running terminals.
Anyone know?
Or Super Off-Road 4x4 for the SNES.
Don't ask. Seriously.
Theeeere's my rejected submission...
More information on these hobbit-sized wonders can be found at Scientific American which runs a Q&A with Dr. Brown. As expected, it's a bit more in-depth than "Hobbits Found!"
Honestly...
I believe PAX had Halo 2 as well.
Honestly, I don't think you need William Shatner's help to get the word out that civilians are in space. It's Huge News(TM) by itself.
Simple answer: No.
The major disadvantage of any "Sony" or "Panasonic" or "Tommy Hilfiger" branded store is that you're limited to just that store's brands. That automatically cuts down a lot on selection, and frankly, I could care less about shopping at a store that carried only Brand Z. Now, with Apple, it doesn't matter, because Apple lives in this isolated (shiny, glossy) Ivory (G5) Tower where by design, everything is Apple! Connect your Apple iPod to your iMac and listen to iTunes while chatting on iChat with your iSight etc. etc. etc. etc. This doesn't work as well for Sony and much less for brands that are not brands at all (frankly, I'm surprised Gateway is still even in business).
These brand stores have been around for a long time, just not for PCs. If anything, they work as sort of a Branding Litmus test. Note here: we're not talking about the brand, or the product, or the features, or the service, but The Brand(TM) in the classic business sense, that is, what does "Ford" or "Nike" or "Post Cereal" mean to somebody. If your Brand(TM) is exciting, then those stores will help bolster it, especially if your store is put in high profile, mass-market (but gaudily touristy) locales. Think of all the stores in Times Square. Suddenly, Toys 'R' Us, Sanrio, Cold Stone, etc. are all a bit more high-profile because now Grandma goes back to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska and tells the grandkids of this place she had ice cream in New York City and wow! was it neat etc. etc. And the truth is, many of these stores willingly refuse to profit on these locations, or, knowing that profitability is not likely, charge a huge amount on their goods to at least cut down on losses. So now the Hitachi store in New York City lost $150,000 last year but, hey, that's not bad considering it's a store IN NEW YORK CITY! and that's pretty exciting. Apple is doing something very similar. It started out in major markets, then hit secondary well-off markets (ritzy suburbs in Baltimore, Jersey, etc.). Now they're making their way into the local mall. Fashionable Brands like Sony, Apple, Alienware, Bose, Svarowski, etc. can do well in these. (Note, apparently in my example fashionable means "Overpriced"). Unfashionable brands like Gateway, Aiwa, Timex may not do as well.
So, no, I would not worry if I was Best Buy. If anything, Best Buy will now be helped by Sony stores, as people go into the Sony store, see the MSRP $4999 Wega XBR HDVDDHDHD-SACD Orgasmaplasmatron, are astounded, then are even more astounded when they see it at Best Buy for $3449 (plus you get a Day After Tomorrow DVD) and finally decide to go with Sony over JVC in their $400 TV purchase just because Sony opened up a store between The Gap and Starbucks at the mall.
The Purple iPod. Two circle-shaped holes are cut out of the back so you can see the circuits. Later the name of this iPod is changed to "".
These devices exist already ...in Japan!
I'm too lazy to read the article. Is there a link to video of it somewhere so I know what it does? Anyone?
Isn't that what their "Extreme!!!" edition is? I'll admit I'm not following CPU information at all, but I was pricing some Dell systems for their crazy sale this past week and one option was a Pentium "Extreme!!!" for $400 more, with no clue as to what made it "Extreme!!!"