It's probably not worth replying to such AC drivel, but yours is topping the worst I've seen on/.
Beside getting the facts wrong (USPS does not cost the taxpayer a dime and it funds, through financial gimmicks, the very government that milks it), your pathetic belief in the free market always solving the world's issues is disgusting.
To be honest, I don't think that having top positions occupied by foreigners is what's killing the US economy.
OTOH, raping the general workforce via the massive outsourcing that has happened since the early eighties is sure to have long-lasting effects in a "post-industrial" economy (whatever that means). Skilled aliens coming to US, buying goods and paying taxes here, are a good thing, not something to fear or fight against.
This is the most blatant lie I have read in a long time. US has benefited enormously from the influx of highly educated immigrants, whose education was paid for other countries. The US got them FOR FREE...
I bet that there are many, many more fully-educated foreigners coming to US than people who pursue their "cheap but good-quality" (really?) education in US then move abroad to benefit other nations.
The ones who peddle the idea stated in the summary are either disingenuous or don't know how good they have it.
Maybe for you in your basement run business selling stale Cheetos but not in a professional setting where corporations or government wish to actually perform real work moron.
Sir, I applaud your courage to sign your own posting. Bravo!
Yes, most wafers today are back-lapped to 100-200um, almost always at the assembly site (due to the fragility of a 8" or 12" plate only 4-8mil thick).
This article describes how to peel off a 20um thick sheet, which is almost and order of magnitude thinner and uses a much less reliable method (cracking along the Si layers) than back-lapping. Unfortunately, I'm not subscribed to that society to read the article you've linked to (same people, isn't it?).
Also, given how much a bare wafer costs these days compared to the cost of the cracking/slicing (including yield, re-polishing etc), I'm not sure it's even economical to slice a wafer into several slivers.
You need to be intoxicated somehow to believe that monocrystalline silicon will bend instead of break, even at 10-20um thickness. Moreover, the circuit's behavior will be drastically affected by the mechanical stress.
Overall, research for the sake of wasting time and money and for papers to be published.
he, he, the "terrible twos" is about to happen to your wonderful child. Some will catch it when they're 2 1/2 yo, but there is no way to avoid it. You'll see then how much the "friend" thing is worth...
and the output is nearly indistinguishable from normal soil
Unfortunately, if used as fertilizer, there's the ever-present risk of infection caused by contamination from insufficiently composted human feces (think E. coli).
You mean an application that duplicates the functionality of a built-in app?
You really think Apple is going to allow this in the iOS store?
I'm wondering about the legality of such a rule. Back in the day, Microsoft got a lot of flak just for having IE built in the OS; imagine what would have happened if they would have said: "sorry, Win95 has a built-in web browser, there is no need for an alternative browser, such as Netscape, and we won't allow it!"...
It's not good policy to start throwing stones while living in a glass house.
None of the 3 main religions involving a special relationship with the personal friend in the sky (mosaic, xtian and muslim) is really a religion of peace as coded in their respective books - have you read the Old Testament? major sections are pure horse-shit, full of awful stuff, definitely worse than what you've cited from Quran.
The exception are the Gospels, but I'd argue that many followers pay only lip-service to their teaching and are anything but Christians (i.e. followers of Jesus' teachings).
If by efficiency one means the ratio between the heat energy extracted and the electrical energy spent in the process, the GP is correct.
Yes, a heat-pump is 400-500% efficient (depending on the outside temperature). For instance, 1kWh of electrical energy brings in my house about 4.5kWh of heat.
By the same measure, an electric radiator is only 100%, i.e. 1kWh of electrical energy produces exactly 1kWh of heat.
My PG&E bill is proof of the efficiency difference; after installing my Daikin system, I went down from Tier3 to Tier1 (baseline).
I'm also looking into ways to teach my son to program at an early age. I wasn't planning on starting at 6, but now I wonder why not.
Maybe, just maybe because at age 6 the brain's ability to handle abstract concepts is not yet developed? Teaching programming to a handful of 6 year olds who show precocious ability is one thing, imposing the same on all kids this age is beyond stupid.
You should spend 90 minutes of your time to watch the excellent lecture called "Sugar: the bitter truth" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM). It will answer any question you may have regarding this issue.
I have high regard for Lawrence Lustig and his research. He concluded that fructose is the really bad carb, due to how it's metabolized. Table sugar has 50% fructose, HFCS has 55% fructose, both are almost equally bad and should be avoided because of their fructose content. OTOH, the glucose content is harmless, but somehow it's clumped together with the bad fructose under the label "carbs are bad".
It's quite possible that "sugars" that do not contain fructose are OK in a balanced diet; it's just that in US most of the sweet stuff that can be bought in stores (blue agave, brown sugar etc etc) has the same fructose content (around 50%) as the ordinary table sugar or HFCS, thus equally bad, despite being touted as healthy or "natural".
A soviet-era bomb maker? I also remember it for its quite good reel-to-reel tape recorders (late eighties), so it must have been something like a diversified industry conglomerate, not just a war-related material factory.
Would you please stop this sh*t? In every single f*cking discussion regarding Apple vs Samsung, here comes Deorus droning ad nauseam in favor of his beloved Apple! No matter what argument was made by the one you're replying to, you keep spouting the same canned responses over and over.
Hint: this behavior does not make you look informed, it just pollutes the discussion and shows what a rabid fanboi you truly are.
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It's probably not worth replying to such AC drivel, but yours is topping the worst I've seen on /.
Beside getting the facts wrong (USPS does not cost the taxpayer a dime and it funds, through financial gimmicks, the very government that milks it), your pathetic belief in the free market always solving the world's issues is disgusting.
Go f*ck yourself, useless bag of meat!
To be honest, I don't think that having top positions occupied by foreigners is what's killing the US economy.
OTOH, raping the general workforce via the massive outsourcing that has happened since the early eighties is sure to have long-lasting effects in a "post-industrial" economy (whatever that means). Skilled aliens coming to US, buying goods and paying taxes here, are a good thing, not something to fear or fight against.
This is the most blatant lie I have read in a long time. US has benefited enormously from the influx of highly educated immigrants, whose education was paid for other countries. The US got them FOR FREE...
I bet that there are many, many more fully-educated foreigners coming to US than people who pursue their "cheap but good-quality" (really?) education in US then move abroad to benefit other nations.
The ones who peddle the idea stated in the summary are either disingenuous or don't know how good they have it.
As someone outside the USA I'm curious, who was it that completely fucked up the Californian tax system?
Easy answer: prop 13
Maybe for you in your basement run business selling stale Cheetos but not in a professional setting where corporations or government wish to actually perform real work moron.
Sir, I applaud your courage to sign your own posting. Bravo!
Yes, most wafers today are back-lapped to 100-200um, almost always at the assembly site (due to the fragility of a 8" or 12" plate only 4-8mil thick).
This article describes how to peel off a 20um thick sheet, which is almost and order of magnitude thinner and uses a much less reliable method (cracking along the Si layers) than back-lapping. Unfortunately, I'm not subscribed to that society to read the article you've linked to (same people, isn't it?).
Also, given how much a bare wafer costs these days compared to the cost of the cracking/slicing (including yield, re-polishing etc), I'm not sure it's even economical to slice a wafer into several slivers.
You need to be intoxicated somehow to believe that monocrystalline silicon will bend instead of break, even at 10-20um thickness. Moreover, the circuit's behavior will be drastically affected by the mechanical stress.
Overall, research for the sake of wasting time and money and for papers to be published.
Ah, keeping alive the "miles wide and inch deep" remark about 'merica's education system (which is getting dumber and dumber with each passing year).
he, he, the "terrible twos" is about to happen to your wonderful child. Some will catch it when they're 2 1/2 yo, but there is no way to avoid it. You'll see then how much the "friend" thing is worth...
Good luck!
and the output is nearly indistinguishable from normal soil
Unfortunately, if used as fertilizer, there's the ever-present risk of infection caused by contamination from insufficiently composted human feces (think E. coli).
You mean an application that duplicates the functionality of a built-in app?
You really think Apple is going to allow this in the iOS store?
I'm wondering about the legality of such a rule. Back in the day, Microsoft got a lot of flak just for having IE built in the OS; imagine what would have happened if they would have said: "sorry, Win95 has a built-in web browser, there is no need for an alternative browser, such as Netscape, and we won't allow it!"...
It's not good policy to start throwing stones while living in a glass house.
None of the 3 main religions involving a special relationship with the personal friend in the sky (mosaic, xtian and muslim) is really a religion of peace as coded in their respective books - have you read the Old Testament? major sections are pure horse-shit, full of awful stuff, definitely worse than what you've cited from Quran.
The exception are the Gospels, but I'd argue that many followers pay only lip-service to their teaching and are anything but Christians (i.e. followers of Jesus' teachings).
Yes, a heat-pump is 400-500% efficient (depending on the outside temperature). For instance, 1kWh of electrical energy brings in my house about 4.5kWh of heat.
By the same measure, an electric radiator is only 100%, i.e. 1kWh of electrical energy produces exactly 1kWh of heat.
My PG&E bill is proof of the efficiency difference; after installing my Daikin system, I went down from Tier3 to Tier1 (baseline).
Apple isn't an Android licensee and ...
Some famous slashdotter once said: "A Freudian slip happens when you say one thing and mean your mother". Totally appropriate here...
Why couldn't we build something like an oil tanker that is completely submersible?
Difficult to make it sink? when empty, you could fill it with seawater, but when full...
Yeah, the title took a while to sink in, but your example is rather poor, as none of the words can be a verb.
I'm also looking into ways to teach my son to program at an early age. I wasn't planning on starting at 6, but now I wonder why not.
Maybe, just maybe because at age 6 the brain's ability to handle abstract concepts is not yet developed? Teaching programming to a handful of 6 year olds who show precocious ability is one thing, imposing the same on all kids this age is beyond stupid.
ugh, Robert Lustig, not Lawrence Lustig
You should spend 90 minutes of your time to watch the excellent lecture called "Sugar: the bitter truth" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM). It will answer any question you may have regarding this issue.
I have high regard for Lawrence Lustig and his research. He concluded that fructose is the really bad carb, due to how it's metabolized. Table sugar has 50% fructose, HFCS has 55% fructose, both are almost equally bad and should be avoided because of their fructose content. OTOH, the glucose content is harmless, but somehow it's clumped together with the bad fructose under the label "carbs are bad".
It's quite possible that "sugars" that do not contain fructose are OK in a balanced diet; it's just that in US most of the sweet stuff that can be bought in stores (blue agave, brown sugar etc etc) has the same fructose content (around 50%) as the ordinary table sugar or HFCS, thus equally bad, despite being touted as healthy or "natural".
I think you're confusing corn syrup with HFCS. It's the F in HFCS that is detrimental to a healthy metabolism, not the maltose in standard corn syrup.
Hey, thank you for the information. Does Mayak mean anything in Russian?
A soviet-era bomb maker? I also remember it for its quite good reel-to-reel tape recorders (late eighties), so it must have been something like a diversified industry conglomerate, not just a war-related material factory.
Would you please stop this sh*t? In every single f*cking discussion regarding Apple vs Samsung, here comes Deorus droning ad nauseam in favor of his beloved Apple! No matter what argument was made by the one you're replying to, you keep spouting the same canned responses over and over.
Hint: this behavior does not make you look informed, it just pollutes the discussion and shows what a rabid fanboi you truly are.
See the Apple advert named "Basically", then you'll understand...