So are we going back to saying 'FET's from almost everything 'MOSFET's? I'm assuming that the 'metal oxide semiconductor' will no longer be applicable when using graphene (at least from that I understand of how the graphene transistors are comprised of). We'll have to replace a bunch of acronyms, like NMOS and PMOS. What'll be the new name? G-MOS?
You're assuming that the transistors themselves will have to go into a hostile environment. Some of them do, but when you're talking about HPC then they'll probably be in a remote location, safe and protected (like Cheyenne Mountain, maybe near the Stargate...).
The center of such a chip-stack would probably get quite hot so you probably want to run some form of liquid cooling through the chip itself.
Once you're creating enough layers, there's nothing preventing the designers to create a 3D structure that's similar to that of a heatsink. Basically, it'll be designed with more surface area so that it can be cooled effectively. Probably a batch of fin-like elements that are connected together. And you wouldn't have to run liquid through it -- just fill the spaces between the semiconductor material with a better heat-transferring material (like copper, or eventually artificial diamond), and have that connected to a larger external surface which is cooled like it is today. Of course, this will mean a radical departure from current fabrication designs, but that won't hold the technology for long (it never does).
graphene provides a promising potential replacement because electrons move through the material much faster than they do through silicon
Could someone elaborate on that statement? I assume that they mean that an electron will move through the material with "less interference", like light traveling through space will be "faster" (to reach its destination) than if it were traveling through matter. Is that what they mean?
I thought that Google was a front company for Microsoft, which in turn is a front company for the NSA. One to collect data on the desktop, and the other to sift through the cloud.
Your new security system has been installed: Motion-activated cameras, access control/logging, fingerprint/retinal scanners, the works. Hmm? Satellite uplink? No no, that's just a large serial bowl -- it's a gift!
I thought it'd be: "Google/NSA: Your privacy is in good hands, with us."
or "Google/NSA: Organizing the world's information; and more*."
or "Google/NSA: Collaboration has a new meaning."
I was like you long ago, but then I stopped giving a fuck about what others thought of me. Made life 100% better.
I mostly agree, with the exception of cases where you care about the person's opinion, and for the right reasons. I don't give a damn what my neighbor thinks because that's just geographical coincidence, but if I choose to become someone's friend, I would at least "give some damn", otherwise why do I choose to consider this person my friend? Family is more complicated, of course, and everyone has to make their own choices there. But apart from those cases, the only thing that should concern you is functionality: don't get on your boss' nerves because he'll fire you, and don't piss off a heavy-weight boxer that's standing right in front of you, because, well, darwinism.
After I fixed that problem, I turned to the internet again because of new problems - one of them is that all of my friends got married and had kids, or they work exhausting hours. Do I envy them? Hell no, because I can go pub-crawling or kayaking while they're stuck indoors wasting all of their money and hard work on nagging, domineering wives and screaming, crapping, defiant kids. When they do have free time to visit we're always stuck at their house playing xBox with 5 year-olds or kicked out to the cold-ass garage before their wife makes me leave at 10pm on a Saturday. They're fucking miserable. Do not take your freedom for granted. Do not envy happy-looking couples, you don't see all of the fighting and control struggles behind the scenes.
That's a matter of perspective and opinion. It's not really related to this topic. It's a valid opinion, in the sense that you're free to do with your life as you will, but I wouldn't say that it's the correct "advice" for everyone. I know several people who were just aimlessly wandering through life until they met the right person, not only to spend their life with, but also to motivate them. If that's not the case for you then that's fine, but I don't think that people keep getting married and having children just to keep the human species from extinction.
The other problem is having non-nerd friends. Everybody I know in real life is not very articulate and conversation is about typical, non-controversial things. Time spent on each topic is kept to a minimum. Trying to start a deep conversation about politics or technology rights just causes them to scratch their heads and rub their eyes in irritation.
You're the one who decides who you spend time with. You say that it's a "problem", but if it were really troubling you, then according to what you say in this post, you'd have no problem telling them flat out that they're boring you and you're not interested in seeing them again.
But things are different on the internet. What's so cool about the internet? Not having to give a fuck about what people think! Nigger, for example. There will always be at least 1 niche that will welcome your weirdness with open arms so that you don't have to deal with all of those hypocrites, phonies, and rubes we encounter in real life. Create a strong persona on the internet and become that persona. Let its toughness change your behavior in real life. Then, when you no longer give a fuck about what others think, they'll try harder to get your attention and win your approval. Pussy will throw itself at you left and right.
Yes and no. Your post is a very good example. By being so aggressive, some people will simply skip over what you've said and dismiss you as a "brute" or a troll, not even considering your argument. The ad-hominem effect kicks in (you'll be dismissed because of who you are, or how you behave, rather than what you say), and you've just lost a lot of people's attention, not all of whom you'd normally choose to filter out. If I know that I'm in an environment that doesn't mind cursing, then I'll cuss like a sailor, but I'd still respect someone
Any content consumption can lead to different states of mind. Read enough Nietzsche (and/or that school of philosophy) and I dare you to stay optimistic.
That question ("we don't know is which comes first -- are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?") can also be answered with: "both". The two are not mutually exclusive. It's a chicken and egg question, and in this case any of the two may be true in different scenarios. You're definitely right about the feedback loop -- it would be the same with alcohol or drugs in this sense (one could lead to the other, which would then lead to more of the first).
In a way it may be equated to substance abuse. Technically, one could drown their self in books as a distraction -- the main differences being the amount of moderation, and the lack of the interactive element (though from what I understand from TFA, it's mainly consumption of content they're referring to). People used to place themselves in front of the TV for 8 hours a day, and that was also linked to depression, or at least social dysfunction.
I think that most people who read Slashdot, and especially anyone who posts, spends a lot of time online, but that's just pointing to "a media" (or is it a "medium" in this context?). What a person does when they're online is far more relevant than just the fact that they're online.
What's more likely to get you depressed -- overexposure to porn, or overexposure to 4chan?
Suppose you have a person who has very few social connections (just the ones they need to survive, like work relationships), and is also relatively isolated from their family (for whatever reason). Is it worse to saturate that person's mind with porn, or to dedicate a lot of time to, let's face it, some cruel, sadistic, and generally hateful communities that exist online?
I'm definitely not trying to legitimize extreme porn consumption, but if we're talking about what leads people to depression, I think that there are more dangerous elements.
(I actually just gave 4chan as an example to point out an overall direction -- there are far worse places, where hatred and malice are directed to whichever cause you can think up)
Once a troll reaches +4, you need both fire *and* acid to kill it. Either that or magical fire / magical acid. If I remember correctly, +5 trolls regenerate all of their hp every round -- only a sadistic DM would throw that at his party.
Like the other replies to this post, I completely agree -- I wish more teachers thought like this (and not *just* in chemistry). Teaching chemistry using "theory only" is like teaching programming using pen and paper (which I'm old enough to remember, and greatly resent).
This is about mnemonics. Associate formulas, tables, ratios and reactions with visual memory -- seeing is remembering. Sometimes you don't even have to do the experiment in class -- if something is either dangerous or expensive, there's probably plenty of videos online of the process. This is actually a subject matter in which youtube is a "good resource" (for the visuals, anyway).
I'm not sure whether this should be modded "Funny", or "Insightful". Sure, it seems like a joke when you put it like that, but as a long-term, gradual, low-profile plan? I don't just mean Google, I mean any company that has more than 50% of its shares in fragments. They would need proxies, of course, and some way to mask the money trail. Is it that far-fetched for a government that employs hacking in such a blatant manner?
You mean Mr. "If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It"? Sure, I'll sleep soundly tonight.
He stayed on Apple's board long after he knew about the Android move, and he's usually the one pushing the "it's technically not illegal" line. I don't see that he's the best person anyone would like to leave their data with. IMO, prepare for more Facebook-esque pranks from Google in the near future.
"better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" - William Blackstone
False positives are the bigger problem. The amount of spam drives the need to "profile" incoming content with greater scrutiny, leading more and more real E-mail to the spam folder. Some of that E-mail might be important. Whitelisting is only a partial solution -- you don't always know where an important E-mail is going to come from. I've had more than one occasion where I've missed out on an opportunity, and a couple of them were job offers. When you find something like that in the spam folder (which, like you said, is massive), it's very disheartening. I'll usually skim through the spam folder weekly, going over what ended up there over the past week -- it's usually a waste of time, but every now and again I'll see something that doesn't belong there.
Opportunity's rock abrasion tool - which was built by Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms -- was used to grind away some of the rock's surface and expose the interior. This was the 38th rock Opportunity has ground into, and one of the hardest, NASA stated.
Don't most/all abrasive tools wear out? Here's its description (linked from the TFA). It doesn't matter how "gently" it operates, it'll eventually lose its effective geometry, and its surface coating should wear out.
Slashdot Mirror
Man, that's speciest.
Germanium forever you punks!
So are we going back to saying 'FET's from almost everything 'MOSFET's? I'm assuming that the 'metal oxide semiconductor' will no longer be applicable when using graphene (at least from that I understand of how the graphene transistors are comprised of). We'll have to replace a bunch of acronyms, like NMOS and PMOS. What'll be the new name? G-MOS?
You're assuming that the transistors themselves will have to go into a hostile environment. Some of them do, but when you're talking about HPC then they'll probably be in a remote location, safe and protected (like Cheyenne Mountain, maybe near the Stargate...).
The center of such a chip-stack would probably get quite hot so you probably want to run some form of liquid cooling through the chip itself.
Once you're creating enough layers, there's nothing preventing the designers to create a 3D structure that's similar to that of a heatsink. Basically, it'll be designed with more surface area so that it can be cooled effectively. Probably a batch of fin-like elements that are connected together. And you wouldn't have to run liquid through it -- just fill the spaces between the semiconductor material with a better heat-transferring material (like copper, or eventually artificial diamond), and have that connected to a larger external surface which is cooled like it is today. Of course, this will mean a radical departure from current fabrication designs, but that won't hold the technology for long (it never does).
graphene provides a promising potential replacement because electrons move through the material much faster than they do through silicon
Could someone elaborate on that statement? I assume that they mean that an electron will move through the material with "less interference", like light traveling through space will be "faster" (to reach its destination) than if it were traveling through matter. Is that what they mean?
One Hack in China to rule them all,
One Google to find them,
One NSA to bring them all and,
in the darkness bind them
I thought that Google was a front company for Microsoft, which in turn is a front company for the NSA. One to collect data on the desktop, and the other to sift through the cloud.
Your new security system has been installed: Motion-activated cameras, access control/logging, fingerprint/retinal scanners, the works. Hmm? Satellite uplink? No no, that's just a large serial bowl -- it's a gift!
I thought it'd be:
"Google/NSA: Your privacy is in good hands, with us."
or
"Google/NSA: Organizing the world's information; and more*."
or
"Google/NSA: Collaboration has a new meaning."
Schmidt: "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship..."
I was like you long ago, but then I stopped giving a fuck about what others thought of me. Made life 100% better.
I mostly agree, with the exception of cases where you care about the person's opinion, and for the right reasons. I don't give a damn what my neighbor thinks because that's just geographical coincidence, but if I choose to become someone's friend, I would at least "give some damn", otherwise why do I choose to consider this person my friend? Family is more complicated, of course, and everyone has to make their own choices there. But apart from those cases, the only thing that should concern you is functionality: don't get on your boss' nerves because he'll fire you, and don't piss off a heavy-weight boxer that's standing right in front of you, because, well, darwinism.
After I fixed that problem, I turned to the internet again because of new problems - one of them is that all of my friends got married and had kids, or they work exhausting hours. Do I envy them? Hell no, because I can go pub-crawling or kayaking while they're stuck indoors wasting all of their money and hard work on nagging, domineering wives and screaming, crapping, defiant kids. When they do have free time to visit we're always stuck at their house playing xBox with 5 year-olds or kicked out to the cold-ass garage before their wife makes me leave at 10pm on a Saturday. They're fucking miserable. Do not take your freedom for granted. Do not envy happy-looking couples, you don't see all of the fighting and control struggles behind the scenes.
That's a matter of perspective and opinion. It's not really related to this topic. It's a valid opinion, in the sense that you're free to do with your life as you will, but I wouldn't say that it's the correct "advice" for everyone. I know several people who were just aimlessly wandering through life until they met the right person, not only to spend their life with, but also to motivate them. If that's not the case for you then that's fine, but I don't think that people keep getting married and having children just to keep the human species from extinction.
The other problem is having non-nerd friends. Everybody I know in real life is not very articulate and conversation is about typical, non-controversial things. Time spent on each topic is kept to a minimum. Trying to start a deep conversation about politics or technology rights just causes them to scratch their heads and rub their eyes in irritation.
You're the one who decides who you spend time with. You say that it's a "problem", but if it were really troubling you, then according to what you say in this post, you'd have no problem telling them flat out that they're boring you and you're not interested in seeing them again.
But things are different on the internet. What's so cool about the internet? Not having to give a fuck about what people think! Nigger, for example. There will always be at least 1 niche that will welcome your weirdness with open arms so that you don't have to deal with all of those hypocrites, phonies, and rubes we encounter in real life. Create a strong persona on the internet and become that persona. Let its toughness change your behavior in real life. Then, when you no longer give a fuck about what others think, they'll try harder to get your attention and win your approval. Pussy will throw itself at you left and right.
Yes and no. Your post is a very good example. By being so aggressive, some people will simply skip over what you've said and dismiss you as a "brute" or a troll, not even considering your argument. The ad-hominem effect kicks in (you'll be dismissed because of who you are, or how you behave, rather than what you say), and you've just lost a lot of people's attention, not all of whom you'd normally choose to filter out. If I know that I'm in an environment that doesn't mind cursing, then I'll cuss like a sailor, but I'd still respect someone
Any content consumption can lead to different states of mind. Read enough Nietzsche (and/or that school of philosophy) and I dare you to stay optimistic.
That question ("we don't know is which comes first -- are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?") can also be answered with: "both". The two are not mutually exclusive. It's a chicken and egg question, and in this case any of the two may be true in different scenarios. You're definitely right about the feedback loop -- it would be the same with alcohol or drugs in this sense (one could lead to the other, which would then lead to more of the first).
In a way it may be equated to substance abuse. Technically, one could drown their self in books as a distraction -- the main differences being the amount of moderation, and the lack of the interactive element (though from what I understand from TFA, it's mainly consumption of content they're referring to). People used to place themselves in front of the TV for 8 hours a day, and that was also linked to depression, or at least social dysfunction.
I think that most people who read Slashdot, and especially anyone who posts, spends a lot of time online, but that's just pointing to "a media" (or is it a "medium" in this context?). What a person does when they're online is far more relevant than just the fact that they're online.
Let's just get this particular joke over with. There are funnier things to poke fun at, people. This is Slashdot, I expected more.
What's more likely to get you depressed -- overexposure to porn, or overexposure to 4chan?
Suppose you have a person who has very few social connections (just the ones they need to survive, like work relationships), and is also relatively isolated from their family (for whatever reason). Is it worse to saturate that person's mind with porn, or to dedicate a lot of time to, let's face it, some cruel, sadistic, and generally hateful communities that exist online?
I'm definitely not trying to legitimize extreme porn consumption, but if we're talking about what leads people to depression, I think that there are more dangerous elements.
(I actually just gave 4chan as an example to point out an overall direction -- there are far worse places, where hatred and malice are directed to whichever cause you can think up)
+5 Troll?
Once a troll reaches +4, you need both fire *and* acid to kill it. Either that or magical fire / magical acid. If I remember correctly, +5 trolls regenerate all of their hp every round -- only a sadistic DM would throw that at his party.
Like the other replies to this post, I completely agree -- I wish more teachers thought like this (and not *just* in chemistry). Teaching chemistry using "theory only" is like teaching programming using pen and paper (which I'm old enough to remember, and greatly resent).
This is about mnemonics. Associate formulas, tables, ratios and reactions with visual memory -- seeing is remembering. Sometimes you don't even have to do the experiment in class -- if something is either dangerous or expensive, there's probably plenty of videos online of the process. This is actually a subject matter in which youtube is a "good resource" (for the visuals, anyway).
Here are a few sites that either give examples of practical/cheap experiments or provide videos of all sorts of chemistry-related material:
thenakedscientists.com
http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/videoclips.htm
http://www.planet-scicast.com/experiments.cfm
Here are a few additional online chemistry resources (the more visual information, the better):
webelements.com
chemicool.com
periodictable.com
periodicvideos.com
practicalchemistry.org
mindat.org
It's like any other subject -- get the students *interested* in _topic_, and they'll teach themselves.
I'm not sure whether this should be modded "Funny", or "Insightful". Sure, it seems like a joke when you put it like that, but as a long-term, gradual, low-profile plan? I don't just mean Google, I mean any company that has more than 50% of its shares in fragments. They would need proxies, of course, and some way to mask the money trail. Is it that far-fetched for a government that employs hacking in such a blatant manner?
It's a jump to conclusions pogo stick.
You mean Mr. "If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It"? Sure, I'll sleep soundly tonight.
He stayed on Apple's board long after he knew about the Android move, and he's usually the one pushing the "it's technically not illegal" line. I don't see that he's the best person anyone would like to leave their data with. IMO, prepare for more Facebook-esque pranks from Google in the near future.
"better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" - William Blackstone
False positives are the bigger problem. The amount of spam drives the need to "profile" incoming content with greater scrutiny, leading more and more real E-mail to the spam folder. Some of that E-mail might be important. Whitelisting is only a partial solution -- you don't always know where an important E-mail is going to come from. I've had more than one occasion where I've missed out on an opportunity, and a couple of them were job offers. When you find something like that in the spam folder (which, like you said, is massive), it's very disheartening. I'll usually skim through the spam folder weekly, going over what ended up there over the past week -- it's usually a waste of time, but every now and again I'll see something that doesn't belong there.
Opportunity's rock abrasion tool - which was built by Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms -- was used to grind away some of the rock's surface and expose the interior. This was the 38th rock Opportunity has ground into, and one of the hardest, NASA stated.
Don't most/all abrasive tools wear out? Here's its description (linked from the TFA). It doesn't matter how "gently" it operates, it'll eventually lose its effective geometry, and its surface coating should wear out.
it makes as much sense as naming their fist to-be colonized planet after a god of war.
I named my fists Romulus and Remus. I hadn't considered colonizing them, however.