When they say an IC is developed with a 7um process, that's the resolution of the lithography process. the smallest feature they can make. The die itself is much thicker.
7 micron is huge, 70's tech. in 2005 they were already down to at least 90nm, maybe smaller. (0.09 um).
I imagine it's because higher doses of iodine are hard on your thyroid gland? So the barium is preferred, unless it can't be used. Just a guess though.
Interestingly, most (all?) other barium compounds are toxic. I seem to think BaSO4 is benign due to it's insolubility... Not sure if I remember that right.
Lots of old parts of cities in North America have lead plumbing. Post war homes usually have copper pipes with lead solder joints. Lead solder is finally being phased out from this use in the last few years.
In areas like mine, it doesn't matter too much, as the hard water leaves carbonates over all the piping... making a sort of coating, as I understand it. I suppose it could be problematic if you have a somewhat acidic water supply?
you might as well go looking for a pay phone(we still have those in Canada).
Not around my parts... They're vanishing at a pretty fast rate. I can't really think of the last ones I've seen, other than at airports, maybe a couple at malls. Convenience stores seem to have lost theirs, by large.
Well, we had imp. gallons of most everything. Then after metrication we had hard 'metric gallons' - 4 litres (and still do, for many things made here, at least). Then suddenly there was an invasion of 3.79L US gallons in many fields - pretty sure NAFTA was behind that.
We still have 12 imp. oz beer in glass bottles (341ml), yet cans are 12 US oz... how that comes to be is... I just don't know, man.
When they ditched mercury thermometers due to toxicity / envrionmental hazards, the replacement is galinstan - gallium, indium, and tin. So it is considerably less toxic.
Unfortunately it wets to glass, unlike mercury which beads up, and is more expensive. The way around that is to coat the glass with something - I don't recall what now, but I think it was some gallium compound.
On the more expensive front - I'd think both gallium and indium are a couple orders of magnitude more expensive than copper, so don't count on that going away any time soon. (Not to mention copper itself is 'expensive' [~$5/kg, it varies], and manufacturers are cheaping out on it. 12 AWG booster cables?! What kind of sick joke is that?)
More human? Bullshit. It's regression to that of a reptile.
It's worse, really. A snake doesn't think about it's actions having effects on things. A psycopath does, realises the effects are negative, and still gives zero fucks.
Just like when they make a new law. Someone points out that this is overly vague or somehow over-reaching, and can be used for $bad_thing. Lawmakers say this is obviously not the intent, and will never be used for such, no need to worry your head about it.
But they intend to use it in that manner soon and often, otherwise it would be rewritten.
Oil is more of Norway's game. Sweden exports some, but much less (it is about 5% of swedish exports, while oil and gas are 60-some percent of Norway's).
Sweden was always into lumber, paper. Traditionally steel, but less now, and steel products, like bearings. Some fish. Now more mobile equipment (ericsson), pharmaceuticals, cars and trucks (volvo, scania, etc).
oh, also ikea shit.
That's besides the point though. The reason they can afford their welfare state is pretty simple. They actually tax their corporations. Imagine that.
I ordered one from Newark last week, got it three? days later. It showed out of stock when I ordered.
It's the newer model with 512MB RAM and screw holes (whoever fucked that up in the first place... it's mind boggling)... but it's not made in the UK. Not sure what that's about, I thought they were supposed to be now.
I wanted to design a shield, but it appears there are no technical drawings of the thing. No drawing showing how far the mounting holes are from GPIO pin 1 and whatnot, just simple stuff like that. Guess I'll have to measure.
I'm not sure why I hopped on this circus anyway... What amateur night project can't release something that simple?
They're sort of... living legends... An alpha release snake.
Later species are much more streamlined, and have dropped some of their dual organs to make room. (Newer snakes only have one lung, for example. well - they usually have a second joke-sized vestigial lung as well). Fat snakes like pythons and boas have two, still.
Another neat thing about pythons is they have little.. claw like things, near their exhaust pipe. Remnants of their hind legs.:) Reptiles lost in time...
I understand why they have to go in Florida (which seems hopeless at this point, anyhow), though. The first time I saw a Burmese Python (like those in Florida) in person I was just amazed at the size of the thing... A snake that weighs more than me.
I think most of the big powerhouse American names are just that now, names, if they exist.
Zenith, RCA, GE, etc... the names still show up on TVs, but they aren't really the same companies. (RCA, for example, doesn't even exist anymore - just the name).
"Value engineering". Ostensibly to reduce cost from not over-engineering things, and still run it's planned lifetime... which could be true, but often isn't. A lot of goods I see weren't engineered at all.
Well... I guess muntzing an old western design and mass-producing it is a kind of engineering, but not a good one...
What you really want is open/free communications standards. Ericsson doesn't even make phones, they make backend / tower equipment.
They obviously can't compete for the best handset, as they don't make any.
If you want to make a phone that supports WCDMA or UMTS or LTE or whatever G we're on now, you gotta pay licensing fees, it's as simple as that.
Only thing else you could do, is come up with your own protocol that no provider supports. Which is pretty useless, and isn't very feasible at this point... things are too entrenched. Best option would be to push for free and open standards for the future.
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When they say an IC is developed with a 7um process, that's the resolution of the lithography process. the smallest feature they can make. The die itself is much thicker.
7 micron is huge, 70's tech. in 2005 they were already down to at least 90nm, maybe smaller. (0.09 um).
Guess I should have searched first. Looks like iodine compounds are only used in veins, not GI. So I guess that explains why they don't use it for GI.
I imagine it's because higher doses of iodine are hard on your thyroid gland? So the barium is preferred, unless it can't be used.
Just a guess though.
Interestingly, most (all?) other barium compounds are toxic. I seem to think BaSO4 is benign due to it's insolubility... Not sure if I remember that right.
Yeah, the title made me think they were releasing the source for the ECUs, not lame ass infotainment stuff.
I always thought the R line was kinda shit. T series were the flagship, toughest and lightest.
The few IBM era T's I have are tanks... Good too, as I'm stuck with them because no one believes in 4:3 anymore.
Lots of old parts of cities in North America have lead plumbing. Post war homes usually have copper pipes with lead solder joints.
Lead solder is finally being phased out from this use in the last few years.
In areas like mine, it doesn't matter too much, as the hard water leaves carbonates over all the piping... making a sort of coating, as I understand it. I suppose it could be problematic if you have a somewhat acidic water supply?
you might as well go looking for a pay phone(we still have those in Canada).
Not around my parts... They're vanishing at a pretty fast rate. I can't really think of the last ones I've seen, other than at airports, maybe a couple at malls. Convenience stores seem to have lost theirs, by large.
Here, also metric, a tablespoon is 15ml, but the rest are the same as you posted, for what it's worth.
Technically in the US they should be:
4 cups = 1 quart = 32 oz = 961ml
1 cup = 8 oz = 237ml
1/2 cup = 4 oz = 118ml
These two are less standard, but generally:
1 tablespoon = 4 drams = 14.x ml
1 teaspoon = 1/3 tbsp = 1.333 drams = ~5ml
Not that it really matters anyway. 4%, big deal.
Well, we had imp. gallons of most everything. Then after metrication we had hard 'metric gallons' - 4 litres (and still do, for many things made here, at least). Then suddenly there was an invasion of 3.79L US gallons in many fields - pretty sure NAFTA was behind that.
We still have 12 imp. oz beer in glass bottles (341ml), yet cans are 12 US oz... how that comes to be is... I just don't know, man.
My brand new revision 2 board, from Newark - is made in China.
Maybe only boards sold in the UK are made there or some such..?
Stamping or forging isn't machining, for what it's worth. Machining implies cutting processes - so turning, drilling, and milling.
When they ditched mercury thermometers due to toxicity / envrionmental hazards, the replacement is galinstan - gallium, indium, and tin. So it is considerably less toxic.
Unfortunately it wets to glass, unlike mercury which beads up, and is more expensive.
The way around that is to coat the glass with something - I don't recall what now, but I think it was some gallium compound.
On the more expensive front - I'd think both gallium and indium are a couple orders of magnitude more expensive than copper, so don't count on that going away any time soon. (Not to mention copper itself is 'expensive' [~$5/kg, it varies], and manufacturers are cheaping out on it. 12 AWG booster cables?! What kind of sick joke is that?)
You'd be surprised. A chair was pretty effective against Clint Eastwood.
More human? Bullshit. It's regression to that of a reptile.
It's worse, really. A snake doesn't think about it's actions having effects on things. A psycopath does, realises the effects are negative, and still gives zero fucks.
Just like when they make a new law. Someone points out that this is overly vague or somehow over-reaching, and can be used for $bad_thing. Lawmakers say this is obviously not the intent, and will never be used for such, no need to worry your head about it.
But they intend to use it in that manner soon and often, otherwise it would be rewritten.
Pretty standard in a broken market, usually a sign of collusion.
Here, gas shot up from 80 cents to $1.50 per litre when crude oil went to near $150 a barrel.
Oil has since gone down considerably, and gas has fallen very slowly, down to $1.20 over a few years.
I should add, i don't believe the magnetic compound is iron based anymore, so rust is a bit of a misnomer in that regard.
Well, they still have a ferromagnetic coating, else they wouldn't be able store data.
So the platters still have a layer of 'rust', what the substrate is made of is irrelevant.
I've been trying to reduce my power bill.
Oil is more of Norway's game. Sweden exports some, but much less (it is about 5% of swedish exports, while oil and gas are 60-some percent of Norway's).
Sweden was always into lumber, paper. Traditionally steel, but less now, and steel products, like bearings. Some fish. Now more mobile equipment (ericsson), pharmaceuticals, cars and trucks (volvo, scania, etc).
oh, also ikea shit.
That's besides the point though. The reason they can afford their welfare state is pretty simple. They actually tax their corporations. Imagine that.
I ordered one from Newark last week, got it three? days later. It showed out of stock when I ordered.
It's the newer model with 512MB RAM and screw holes (whoever fucked that up in the first place... it's mind boggling)... but it's not made in the UK. Not sure what that's about, I thought they were supposed to be now.
I wanted to design a shield, but it appears there are no technical drawings of the thing. No drawing showing how far the mounting holes are from GPIO pin 1 and whatnot, just simple stuff like that. Guess I'll have to measure.
I'm not sure why I hopped on this circus anyway... What amateur night project can't release something that simple?
They're sort of... living legends... An alpha release snake.
Later species are much more streamlined, and have dropped some of their dual organs to make room. (Newer snakes only have one lung, for example. well - they usually have a second joke-sized vestigial lung as well). Fat snakes like pythons and boas have two, still.
Another neat thing about pythons is they have little.. claw like things, near their exhaust pipe. Remnants of their hind legs. :)
Reptiles lost in time...
I understand why they have to go in Florida (which seems hopeless at this point, anyhow), though.
The first time I saw a Burmese Python (like those in Florida) in person I was just amazed at the size of the thing... A snake that weighs more than me.
I think most of the big powerhouse American names are just that now, names, if they exist.
Zenith, RCA, GE, etc... the names still show up on TVs, but they aren't really the same companies. (RCA, for example, doesn't even exist anymore - just the name).
"Value engineering". Ostensibly to reduce cost from not over-engineering things, and still run it's planned lifetime... which could be true, but often isn't. A lot of goods I see weren't engineered at all.
Well... I guess muntzing an old western design and mass-producing it is a kind of engineering, but not a good one...
What you really want is open/free communications standards. Ericsson doesn't even make phones, they make backend / tower equipment.
They obviously can't compete for the best handset, as they don't make any.
If you want to make a phone that supports WCDMA or UMTS or LTE or whatever G we're on now, you gotta pay licensing fees, it's as simple as that.
Only thing else you could do, is come up with your own protocol that no provider supports. Which is pretty useless, and isn't very feasible at this point... things are too entrenched. Best option would be to push for free and open standards for the future.