OpSIS is a foundry service for integrated photonics/CMOS electronics, similar to MOSIS for CMOS. Academic and research institutions can get small lots of experimental designs built as part of a multi-chip wafer run. They support libraries of standard and example components, some modelling and rules decks. They plan several fab runs a year, and access, last time I checked, three different processes from different vendors. Carver Mead is a booster.
I had hoped to start designing with their rules a while ago, and got pulled into more immediate projects. I still think it's pretty cool, and would like to get back to it if ever I get a quiet moment.
In Neuromancer Turing are genuinely afraid of AIs: "You have no care for your species," one Turing agent says to Case, "for thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons". The imagery presented here is almost religious: Gibson suggests that beings such as Wintermute have gone beyond all understanding, elevated even to the status of gods or demons.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess alkaloids. This is just from the level of excitement in the SAM guy's voice, relative to the complexity of the organics. If he really discovered long strands of DNA, he'd be jumping up and down and wetting his pants. I didn't hear that.
THIS. Congress tinkers with the mandate of the USPS, and then complains that its not making a profit. Don't you get it? It's not allowed to compete in ways that allow it to make a profit.
Pretty much all the people around at the founding of the nation recognized the value of reliable, efficient, post service available for all. It's essential infrastructure. It's one of the reasons why business works in America. 'Based on the Postal Clause in Article One of the United States Constitution, empowering Congress "To establish post offices and post roads", it became the Post Office Department (USPOD) in 1792. ' - Wikipedia
Geez, try sending essential items to your buddy on Peace Corps assignment in Africa, and you will quickly come to understand the value of a trustworthy, efficient and transparent postal service.
And you can't just eliminate the USPS with a wave of your hand. Just figuring out how to do that would be a tremendous amount of work. Many laws and much legal precedent rely on the existence of the USPO, for instance. And still, weirdly, there are lots of things that cannot be sent over a wire.
This seems like an instance of human traders being smarter than the bots.
I think it's unfair to long-term investors, and humans in general, to halt trading just because the automated traders are overreacting. It looks just like another instance of the market being managed to give Wall Street institutions and HF traders an advantage over retail traders. Can somebody explain to me why this is legal?
Wall Street, read this: if you continue to stack the deck against retail traders, mom-and-pop investors are going to look harder and harder for alternative places to put their money.
Hey, why not just embed the RFID tags in them subdermally, in their ear, like cattle? There must be a fair bit of expertise for that sort of thing in Texas.
In other news, the last kid in John Jay High School to figure out they could just leave their ID card in their locker and stay in bed all day was mercilessly mocked and bullied by his peers.
This. I just shows, IMHO, how undervalued the entire microelectronics sector is when some dorky try-this-for-a-few-years appliance manufacturer, with no real understanding of or love for hardware design, buys out something like OMAP. Amazon will use this for a few build iterations and then be onto the next thing - as soon as purpose-specific e-readers are permanently subsumed in the functions of ubiquitous general-purpose tablets, nano-phones, iVisors (tm), Droid Druid(tm) subdermal infared modems or whatever the next thing is.
When I was very young, I used to swear by a book by Tony Buzan that was very much along these lines. The title was "Using Both Sides of Your Brain" or something like that. It was helpful to me though it made my class notes unreadable to anyone else. (This was before it occured to me to use computers for these things.)
Yeah, I hear you on the sticker shock WRT Tesla. I don't know that they're ever going to be cheap, though I'm sure there's an economy-of-scale thing they're hoping will allow them to lower the price once they ramp up production.
Home-brew ethanol? That's impressive. You should post a link or links related to this - I would be interested (though, it too is probably impractical for me).
Do you happen to have any numbers on the use of copper, neodymium, and lithium in any model Tesla or any electrical vehicle at all? No? Lots of people thought catalytic converters were going to ruin the American auto industry too. I'm fairly certain Elon Musk would not be going to the trouble if he didn't think he could produce these, eventually, in quantity.
Can you tell me the relative efficiency of a conventional gas-burning engine? And compare that to the efficiency of burning coal or natural gas remotely then transmitting it to a residence? I don't have the time to chase all this down, I was just pointing out an interesting article. But you're shooting off your mouth kind of a lot for someone who hasn't quoted a single actual number.
Here, I'll start you out. "due to its size it will have about the same drag coefficient and wind resistance losses as any other standard vehicle on the road." Looky looky here, Wikipedia: "According to Tesla Motors the electric car has a drag coefficient of 0.24, the lowest of any car in the market, [...]"
Also, same source; "EPA's energy consumption is rated at 855 kilojoules per kilometre (38 kWh/100 mi) for a combined fuel economy of 89 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (2.64 L/100 km).[4][7]"
"Curb weight 4,647.3 lb (2,108.0 kg)[2]" vs 2013 Ford Taurus Curb Weight (lbs): 4035
Hey, just incidentally the New York Times reviewed the Tesla Model S today. There seems to be a lot of electric vehicle haterz on Slashdot lately, I don't get why, but if you're legitimately interested in the tech, rather than just Detroit astroturf, the NYTimes review is certainly worth a read.
"Put simply, the automobile has not undergone a fundamental change in design or use since Henry Ford rolled out the Model T more than a century ago. At least that’s what I thought until I spent a week with the Tesla Model S."
Oh God am I depressed that NASA's TiME mission didn't get funded! It would have been ten times cooler than the mission they ended up with. Discovery class missions were meant to be riskier than other larger classes of missions. But as the Discovery mission starts get fewer and fewer, inevitably the tolerance to risk goes down.
"NASA is notorious for stating "water" interchangeably with the fluid state of gasses." -- for the claim of 'notorious' to be true, someone other than the vast masses of scientifically literate, engaged tea-party patriots in your own mind would have to know about it. Cite or GTFO.
Compelling reasons: well, for starters, that colony would be insurance against an extinction-level asteroid impact here on Earth. So there's that.
I think wanting Mars-tronauts to be "productive" and whinging about the cost and the "enormous expense of keeping them alive" somewhat disqualifies you from this conversation. Humans moving beyond the confines of Earth is Manifest Destiny. It's inevitable. Man must always have frontiers, else, he is not Man.
Also, Richard Branson isn't requiring you to bless his spreadsheet, because his effort is privately funded. No one asked you if you thought it would be profitable.
(I'm all for renewables, but you can't demand that private individuals pay for solar panels for all of us. Realistically, it's probably a reasonable thing for an obscenely rich guy to do with his own money. He could be blowing it influencing elections or any number of worse things. Use your imagination.)
I'm not arguing that it's the best solution. I'm just saying that in this case its use is not egregious, IMO, as it seems limited to areas around schools. I can't say how effective it is, except anecdotally - in my own experience, I've looked for and spotted the camera (and consequently slowed down, because I knew it was there) earlier than I would have slowed down had it not been there.
While I can't say I'm a fan of speed cameras, and in fact the thought of vandalizing them has crossed my mind on occasion, the two I encounter routinely in Baltimore County are right out in front of elementary schools with lots of cute little pedestrians around them. So, it's hard for me to be entirely critical of the effort - at least because it does what it's supposed to - it reminds me to slow down before I run over some kid. If instead they were everywhere, I would be much more in opposition to them.
This. Why is "iPad-killer" even a thing? People buy iPads because they want iPads. If you offer them something better, cheaper... they will continue to buy iPads.
Yeah cause NASA hasn't accomplished anything worth undertaking.
The truth is, NASA and the DoD (and the intelligence community, and DARPA) are pretty deeply interconnected, and you're naive if you can't believe that. NASA centers do NASA work, but NASA developments have contributed to the NRO, NSA, strategic defense.
The other truth is, NASA is less than a half a percent of the federal budget. Perhaps the Tea Party will have a great laugh after they've disbanded the entire civilian space program, but in the end, it will be an irreplaceable loss (you'd never get all that talent to come back again after you laid them off once - just like in a commercial enterprise) and have negligable impact on the budget.
If you want to fix the deficit, you need to cut all these things; defense, intelligence, and entitlements. AND you need to increase revenues, and not with some kind of Laffer-curve smoke and mirrors. Everything else is kidding yourself.
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http://opsisfoundry.org/
OpSIS is a foundry service for integrated photonics/CMOS electronics, similar to MOSIS for CMOS. Academic and research institutions can get small lots of experimental designs built as part of a multi-chip wafer run. They support libraries of standard and example components, some modelling and rules decks. They plan several fab runs a year, and access, last time I checked, three different processes from different vendors. Carver Mead is a booster.
I had hoped to start designing with their rules a while ago, and got pulled into more immediate projects. I still think it's pretty cool, and would like to get back to it if ever I get a quiet moment.
In Neuromancer Turing are genuinely afraid of AIs: "You have no care for your species," one Turing agent says to Case, "for thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons". The imagery presented here is almost religious: Gibson suggests that beings such as Wintermute have gone beyond all understanding, elevated even to the status of gods or demons.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess alkaloids. This is just from the level of excitement in the SAM guy's voice, relative to the complexity of the organics. If he really discovered long strands of DNA, he'd be jumping up and down and wetting his pants. I didn't hear that.
Even Grover Norquist is not going to be happy with the quality of service after a privatization of the USPO.
THIS. Congress tinkers with the mandate of the USPS, and then complains that its not making a profit. Don't you get it? It's not allowed to compete in ways that allow it to make a profit.
Pretty much all the people around at the founding of the nation recognized the value of reliable, efficient, post service available for all. It's essential infrastructure. It's one of the reasons why business works in America. 'Based on the Postal Clause in Article One of the United States Constitution, empowering Congress "To establish post offices and post roads", it became the Post Office Department (USPOD) in 1792. ' - Wikipedia
Geez, try sending essential items to your buddy on Peace Corps assignment in Africa, and you will quickly come to understand the value of a trustworthy, efficient and transparent postal service.
And you can't just eliminate the USPS with a wave of your hand. Just figuring out how to do that would be a tremendous amount of work. Many laws and much legal precedent rely on the existence of the USPO, for instance. And still, weirdly, there are lots of things that cannot be sent over a wire.
http://www.animalsinwar.org.uk/
"This monument is dedicated to all the animals
that served and died alongside British and allied forces
in wars and campaigns throughout time"
The second, smaller inscription simply reads:
"They had no choice"
.
I hardly know her!
This seems like an instance of human traders being smarter than the bots.
I think it's unfair to long-term investors, and humans in general, to halt trading just because the automated traders are overreacting. It looks just like another instance of the market being managed to give Wall Street institutions and HF traders an advantage over retail traders. Can somebody explain to me why this is legal?
Wall Street, read this: if you continue to stack the deck against retail traders, mom-and-pop investors are going to look harder and harder for alternative places to put their money.
THIS! I am so refusing to get my daughter a cellphone, despite her constant whinging on the topic. (She's six.)
Steve Hernandez, whose daughter is a sophomore, objects to the tags, saying they are similar to the "mark of the beast."
"My daughter should not have to compromise (her) religion just because Northside Independent School District wants to get paid," Hernandez said.
Hey, why not just embed the RFID tags in them subdermally, in their ear, like cattle? There must be a fair bit of expertise for that sort of thing in Texas.
In other news, the last kid in John Jay High School to figure out they could just leave their ID card in their locker and stay in bed all day was mercilessly mocked and bullied by his peers.
This. I just shows, IMHO, how undervalued the entire microelectronics sector is when some dorky try-this-for-a-few-years appliance manufacturer, with no real understanding of or love for hardware design, buys out something like OMAP. Amazon will use this for a few build iterations and then be onto the next thing - as soon as purpose-specific e-readers are permanently subsumed in the functions of ubiquitous general-purpose tablets, nano-phones, iVisors (tm), Droid Druid(tm) subdermal infared modems or whatever the next thing is.
When I was very young, I used to swear by a book by Tony Buzan that was very much along these lines. The title was "Using Both Sides of Your Brain" or something like that. It was helpful to me though it made my class notes unreadable to anyone else. (This was before it occured to me to use computers for these things.)
Yeah, I hear you on the sticker shock WRT Tesla. I don't know that they're ever going to be cheap, though I'm sure there's an economy-of-scale thing they're hoping will allow them to lower the price once they ramp up production.
Home-brew ethanol? That's impressive. You should post a link or links related to this - I would be interested (though, it too is probably impractical for me).
Cite or GTFO.
Do you happen to have any numbers on the use of copper, neodymium, and lithium in any model Tesla or any electrical vehicle at all? No? Lots of people thought catalytic converters were going to ruin the American auto industry too. I'm fairly certain Elon Musk would not be going to the trouble if he didn't think he could produce these, eventually, in quantity.
Can you tell me the relative efficiency of a conventional gas-burning engine? And compare that to the efficiency of burning coal or natural gas remotely then transmitting it to a residence? I don't have the time to chase all this down, I was just pointing out an interesting article. But you're shooting off your mouth kind of a lot for someone who hasn't quoted a single actual number.
Here, I'll start you out. "due to its size it will have about the same drag coefficient and wind resistance losses as any other standard vehicle on the road." Looky looky here, Wikipedia: "According to Tesla Motors the electric car has a drag coefficient of 0.24, the lowest of any car in the market, [...]"
Also, same source; "EPA's energy consumption is rated at 855 kilojoules per kilometre (38 kWh/100 mi) for a combined fuel economy of 89 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (2.64 L/100 km).[4][7]"
"Curb weight 4,647.3 lb (2,108.0 kg)[2]" vs 2013 Ford Taurus Curb Weight (lbs): 4035
If you need help operating Google, let me know.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/automobiles/autoreviews/one-big-step-for-tesla-one-giant-leap-for-evs.html?hp
Hey, just incidentally the New York Times reviewed the Tesla Model S today. There seems to be a lot of electric vehicle haterz on Slashdot lately, I don't get why, but if you're legitimately interested in the tech, rather than just Detroit astroturf, the NYTimes review is certainly worth a read.
"Put simply, the automobile has not undergone a fundamental change in design or use since Henry Ford rolled out the Model T more than a century ago. At least that’s what I thought until I spent a week with the Tesla Model S."
Hey! I stop in Staten Island whenever I go through. Great bagels!
Also, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for the record. As am I, and I can still recommend it.
Oh God am I depressed that NASA's TiME mission didn't get funded! It would have been ten times cooler than the mission they ended up with. Discovery class missions were meant to be riskier than other larger classes of missions. But as the Discovery mission starts get fewer and fewer, inevitably the tolerance to risk goes down.
"NASA is notorious for stating "water" interchangeably with the fluid state of gasses." -- for the claim of 'notorious' to be true, someone other than the vast masses of scientifically literate, engaged tea-party patriots in your own mind would have to know about it. Cite or GTFO.
Compelling reasons: well, for starters, that colony would be insurance against an extinction-level asteroid impact here on Earth. So there's that.
I think wanting Mars-tronauts to be "productive" and whinging about the cost and the "enormous expense of keeping them alive" somewhat disqualifies you from this conversation. Humans moving beyond the confines of Earth is Manifest Destiny. It's inevitable. Man must always have frontiers, else, he is not Man.
Also, Richard Branson isn't requiring you to bless his spreadsheet, because his effort is privately funded. No one asked you if you thought it would be profitable.
(I'm all for renewables, but you can't demand that private individuals pay for solar panels for all of us. Realistically, it's probably a reasonable thing for an obscenely rich guy to do with his own money. He could be blowing it influencing elections or any number of worse things. Use your imagination.)
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Can I just say, that may be the best SIG I've ever read on Slashdot?
I'm not arguing that it's the best solution. I'm just saying that in this case its use is not egregious, IMO, as it seems limited to areas around schools. I can't say how effective it is, except anecdotally - in my own experience, I've looked for and spotted the camera (and consequently slowed down, because I knew it was there) earlier than I would have slowed down had it not been there.
While I can't say I'm a fan of speed cameras, and in fact the thought of vandalizing them has crossed my mind on occasion, the two I encounter routinely in Baltimore County are right out in front of elementary schools with lots of cute little pedestrians around them. So, it's hard for me to be entirely critical of the effort - at least because it does what it's supposed to - it reminds me to slow down before I run over some kid. If instead they were everywhere, I would be much more in opposition to them.
This. Why is "iPad-killer" even a thing? People buy iPads because they want iPads. If you offer them something better, cheaper... they will continue to buy iPads.
Yeah cause NASA hasn't accomplished anything worth undertaking.
The truth is, NASA and the DoD (and the intelligence community, and DARPA) are pretty deeply interconnected, and you're naive if you can't believe that. NASA centers do NASA work, but NASA developments have contributed to the NRO, NSA, strategic defense.
The other truth is, NASA is less than a half a percent of the federal budget. Perhaps the Tea Party will have a great laugh after they've disbanded the entire civilian space program, but in the end, it will be an irreplaceable loss (you'd never get all that talent to come back again after you laid them off once - just like in a commercial enterprise) and have negligable impact on the budget.
If you want to fix the deficit, you need to cut all these things; defense, intelligence, and entitlements. AND you need to increase revenues, and not with some kind of Laffer-curve smoke and mirrors. Everything else is kidding yourself.