These are no ordinary Joe at amazon. These are some of the bigwigs, that makes it even more shameful.
First author: Andrew Jassy, senior VP of Amazon Web service, MBA degree from Harvard B school.
Second Author: Udi Manber , Professor at University of Arizona, and chief "algorithm" officer at Amazon. Doctorate from University of Washington.
third author: Jonathan Leblang , Former VP of A9 and Alexa, current director of A2Z Development center for Amazon. Graduate of George Mason University and Virginia Tech.
nonsense. Plenty of Chinese people purchase computers from Lenovo, Dell, Sony, Toshiba. They all paid for those licenses, just like the rest of us. Most Chinese computer users aren't haxor geeks who build their own computer and install pirate versions. I just helped a Chinese girl yesterday reinstall her VAIO laptop.
I just got the Godfather game for Wii. I have to say, even though it's a cross-platform game, the integration with the Wii controller makes it very enjoyable to play.
A game ported into the Wii can still be better than it's XBOX/PS counterpart, as long as the developer spend some time integrating the wii-mote into it.
I thought the problem that's limiting the current chip density is heat dissipation due to leakage current, rather than the number of device we can squeeze into a die.
btw, pls help with a google analytics study (STATS252).
How about foreign countries, especially developing world, if their computer is not powerful enough to run VISTA...
btw, please click on this stanford link for a test on google analytics assignment.
execept the distance between china and Taiwan is 3x that of the Normandy invasion, and the air/sea imbalance is not quite as great as the Allied/Germany.
1 million Chinese Soldiers on fishing boats drifting slowly across the strait is quite the target.
Plus, Hitler was convinced that Allied invasion during was suppose to occur elsewhere, therefore he failed to send in his armor division until it's too late. With modern satellite technology, such deception will not be possible.
This is almost exactly the same thing as what Dr. Chad Mirkin has been doing for the past 2-3 years at Northwestern University. Already published in Science magazine:
D. Piner, J. Zhu, F. Xu, and S. Hong, C. A. Mirkin, "Dip-Pen Nanolithography", Science, 1999, 283, 661-63.
Go here for their web page. The are able to write the word 'NU' 50% smaller than what Mr. Hubert was able to accomplish. In addition, they are also trying to do this in parallel, using individually addressable AFM probes.
BTW: the probe tips that was used, can simply be bought here. It's a very established technology dating back more than a decade ago. It is also quite irresponsible that the MSNBC story here and Mr. Hubert's web site gave absolutely NO credit to the work by Northwestern. I guess to the media and the un-knowning public, an invention from MIT sounds a lot sexier than one done by Northwestern.
By the way, I'm someone doing research in Micromachining, but I'm not affliated with Northwestern University. In case someone want's to flame me.
Note to all: Forget about getting a PS2 at a specialty store or any stores that pre-ordered the consol, because pre-order far exceeds supply. (Department stores ) is the best way to go.
I was one of those lucky ones that managed to wait only 8 hours and get a PS2 in my area (BIG TEN college town). There were actually people who lined up at Walmart 14 hr prior to the release then found out that Walmart resorted to raffling the consol instead of 'first come, first serve'. Enough people lined up at Best Buy to encircle 1/2 the store 9 hours prior to launch(around 50-100 available at launch). Super K only had 3 available at the launch. Circuit city insist on bundling Fantavision along with the consol at $350. It was unfortunate that these stores were very vague on the # they had and how they were going to distribute them.
After trying 4 different stores we stopped by Target at midnight (8hr before launch) and found them to be the most informative. They specified at the door that only 27 consols are available, and they will hand out 27 tickets to the first 27 people in line. Naturally, the original 27 people in line banded together and discouraged anyone from lining up. Informal numbers were passed around, a list was created to ensure that we would get it. However, near the store opening many people attempted to cut in until the managers intervened. Throughout the experience, I say that Target was the most professional store out of all the ones I visited (super K, Walmart, Best Buy, Meijer).
Note to those who might want to get PS2: Target will have another shipment in the next 2-3 days.
Also, a I heard a rumor regarding the PS2 shortage... Sony had to retool some of their production line due to lack of inventory of PS1 after they slowed production. This caused them to have a 2 month lag in PS2 production. Anyone that can comment on this?
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These are no ordinary Joe at amazon. These are some of the bigwigs, that makes it even more shameful.
First author: Andrew Jassy, senior VP of Amazon Web service, MBA degree from Harvard B school.
Second Author: Udi Manber , Professor at University of Arizona, and chief "algorithm" officer at Amazon. Doctorate from University of Washington.
third author: Jonathan Leblang , Former VP of A9 and Alexa, current director of A2Z Development center for Amazon. Graduate of George Mason University and Virginia Tech.
nonsense. Plenty of Chinese people purchase computers from Lenovo, Dell, Sony, Toshiba. They all paid for those licenses, just like the rest of us. Most Chinese computer users aren't haxor geeks who build their own computer and install pirate versions. I just helped a Chinese girl yesterday reinstall her VAIO laptop.
I just got the Godfather game for Wii. I have to say, even though it's a cross-platform game, the integration with the Wii controller makes it very enjoyable to play.
A game ported into the Wii can still be better than it's XBOX/PS counterpart, as long as the developer spend some time integrating the wii-mote into it.
All the impeachment talk is worrying... Our last president was impeached, do we really want to make it two in a row?
I thought the problem that's limiting the current chip density is heat dissipation due to leakage current, rather than the number of device we can squeeze into a die. btw, pls help with a google analytics study (STATS252).
How about foreign countries, especially developing world, if their computer is not powerful enough to run VISTA... btw, please click on this stanford link for a test on google analytics assignment.
stop calling him GEEK every other sentence. That's a start.
1. Taiwan has nukes. China has all of their cities on a densely populated coast. Do the math.
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Except they don't.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/taiwan/nuke
execept the distance between china and Taiwan is 3x that of the Normandy invasion, and the air/sea imbalance is not quite as great as the Allied/Germany.
1 million Chinese Soldiers on fishing boats drifting slowly across the strait is quite the target.
Plus, Hitler was convinced that Allied invasion during was suppose to occur elsewhere, therefore he failed to send in his armor division until it's too late. With modern satellite technology, such deception will not be possible.
interesting to note that there is NO actually ruling, all this selling is fired up by speculation.
one more note: options for RMBS shares surge today.
D. Piner, J. Zhu, F. Xu, and S. Hong, C. A. Mirkin, "Dip-Pen Nanolithography", Science, 1999, 283, 661-63.
Go here for their web page. The are able to write the word 'NU' 50% smaller than what Mr. Hubert was able to accomplish. In addition, they are also trying to do this in parallel, using individually addressable AFM probes.
BTW: the probe tips that was used, can simply be bought here. It's a very established technology dating back more than a decade ago. It is also quite irresponsible that the MSNBC story here and Mr. Hubert's web site gave absolutely NO credit to the work by Northwestern. I guess to the media and the un-knowning public, an invention from MIT sounds a lot sexier than one done by Northwestern. By the way, I'm someone doing research in Micromachining, but I'm not affliated with Northwestern University. In case someone want's to flame me.
I was one of those lucky ones that managed to wait only 8 hours and get a PS2 in my area (BIG TEN college town). There were actually people who lined up at Walmart 14 hr prior to the release then found out that Walmart resorted to raffling the consol instead of 'first come, first serve'. Enough people lined up at Best Buy to encircle 1/2 the store 9 hours prior to launch(around 50-100 available at launch). Super K only had 3 available at the launch. Circuit city insist on bundling Fantavision along with the consol at $350. It was unfortunate that these stores were very vague on the # they had and how they were going to distribute them.
After trying 4 different stores we stopped by Target at midnight (8hr before launch) and found them to be the most informative. They specified at the door that only 27 consols are available, and they will hand out 27 tickets to the first 27 people in line. Naturally, the original 27 people in line banded together and discouraged anyone from lining up. Informal numbers were passed around, a list was created to ensure that we would get it. However, near the store opening many people attempted to cut in until the managers intervened. Throughout the experience, I say that Target was the most professional store out of all the ones I visited (super K, Walmart, Best Buy, Meijer).
Note to those who might want to get PS2: Target will have another shipment in the next 2-3 days.
Also, a I heard a rumor regarding the PS2 shortage... Sony had to retool some of their production line due to lack of inventory of PS1 after they slowed production. This caused them to have a 2 month lag in PS2 production. Anyone that can comment on this?