I've had DSL for almost 2 years and i've only had one problem so far. My line got noisy and became mostly useless but PacBell came out only few days after i reported the problem and fixed it. 3 days of downtime in 2 years for a home office connection isn't bad when you consider the incredibly high demand for DSL service.
Only thing that makes me worry a little is that PacBell DSL is now handled by SBC. That can sometimes be aggravating when you wait on hold to talk to PacBell and then they transfer you to SBC and you have to wait on hold again but so far its been ok.
I see a lot of discussion involving this doesn't matter because of this problem or that problem or some other problem.
I think these people are missing the point. Sure there are thousands of really challenging problems that need to be overcome in order to keep Moore's Law on track through the next decade. But... each problem has to be solved individually and this is one potential solution to one problem.
EBeam, XRay and other Next Generation Lithography methods look promising but each of these has their own problems as well. The industry has long taken the approach of attacking problems from various angles and letting the best suited technology lead the way.
That's what this article is about. Its one possible approach to one problem that we know we need to solve.
the covalent radius for silicon is about 0.2nm that means that a 0.18um silicon feature is roughly 1000 atoms wide. the ratio of feature size to atom/molecule size isn't really an issue at the moment although it eventually will be.
Did you bother to read that article you linked to?
Here's a snipet: "So is Nader a hypocrite for amassing a personal fortune while advocating consumer rights and railing against corporate power? In a word, no."
Is Nader perfect? of course not but he's at least 3 orders of magnitude better than any of the other candidates.
The gov. has the power but it has put it up for sale to the highest corporate bidder. I believe this is the real problem. This practice of corporate lobbying must stop.
The corps. get tax breaks and license to destroy the environment and the politicians get big fat kickbacks. Obviously neither the gov. or the corps. will be interested in putting a stop to this practice.
So how do WE stop it? Vote for a president with some integrity.
The only wasted vote is the one that isn't cast for the candidate you think is best suited.
In other words if you think Ralph Nader is the best candidate and you don't vote for him for whatever reason then you have wasted your vote.
What sense does it make to vote for Gore just to make sure Bush doesn't win? They both suck and neither of them will lead this country in a responsible manner. Please vote for the candidate that you think would be the best president. MHO
the U.S. is not a pure democrocy. it is a REPRESENTATIONAL democracy. we elect candidates to represent us. they are the gov. we are not the gov.
our gov. has been owned by the corporate lobbyists for a long time now. we will never have a chance to control the gov. until the lobbying is brought under control. neither Gore or Bush will do this so vote for someone else.
The 2 party system wants you to think the election is futile. By believing that you have played into their hands and become docile and easy to control. Only through awareness can the people take back what is rightfully theirs (The government).
Vote against the 2 party system.
Vote for Ralph Nader. This guys got 100 times the integrity of the other candidates combined.
Appologies for being OT but you pushed a button and I felt compelled to respond.
I could be mistaken but i thought that Sony dropped the VGS suit when it became clear that they would lose. It was speculated that they dropped the suit specifically so that it would not set a precedent against them in the future.
Can someone verify this? I could be wrong and i'm at work now so can't spend time looking it up.
You are correct about intercontinental communication and the internet backbone.
But at home i surf the web and do email wireless from my laptop and having used it only for a couple of months, i would never give it up now the same way i would never give up my dsl line.
Sorry i didn't have time to read your whole comment but wouldn't it be a simple matter to create a program that checks incoming data for unsecure keys? Of course this would only guarantee that YOUR outgoing data was safe.
I agree with you when you are talking about an individual workstation.
However i often find myself at other peoples workstations helping them or getting help from them. When their UI is not the same an my own, I don't have much choice in that.
Granted this does not entail the bulk of my UI interaction and i find myself now playing the role of "hair splitter". In any case, i think this topic doesn't warrant a lengthy discussion. Thanks for clarifying your comments, i slightly misinterpreted your original post.
How is being "forced" into the same user experience any better or worse than being "forced" into differing or fragmented user experiences? I don't see any substance to that statement.
The whole discussion is splitting hairs IMO. It all depends on your definition of an "OS".
I was under the impression that the point of the "vote auction" site was to point out that if corruption on the "vote auction" level isn't acceptable then why is it accepted at the legistlative level? And why isn't anyone concerned about it given that it is a much more dangerous problem at that level?
Education should receive MUCH more government funding. The profits of these projects should go back into the universities NOT into fat cat corporate pockets.
Time to get the government working for the people again. Please consider voting for Ralph Nader.
I agree. I believe the root of the problem is that our government is now controlled by corporations. It is no longer a government for the people.
Which is why I'm voting for Ralph Nader. Democrats and Rebublicans have no significant differences anymore. The important issues are never talked about and are pushed to the side in favor of corporate interests. Just look at gasoline prices, the oil companies claim that prices were raised because their costs increased but then why did they have record earnings and profits last quarter?
We the people need to take back our government and make it work for us.
http://www.votenader.com
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You could project the center view image on the wall but it would be best to use projection screens for the side views so you could angle them.
Of course this also magnifies the motion sickness factor by quite a bit.
Before you even start in, I'm making a philosophical point here. I understand the difficulty of working with partners without disclosing information. Apple has to accept some of the blame here. Presumably ATI did not devine this information. The original source of the information is Apple. If Apple had not let the information out, it could not have been leaked.
a person cannot adhere strictly to your "question everything" philosophy and still live their life realisticly. one must make an enormous number of assumptions every day. this is not necessarily a bad thing.
for example, do you test the floor ahead of you before you take a step to make sure that the floor will support you? of course not, it would take too long and is wasted effort. these things go by degrees. if i were looking for survivors in an earthquake damaged building then testing the floor might make sense. you have to play the percentages when appropriate and for the most part one can assume that the ground underfoot is solid.
that being said i think it is important to identify assumptions and test them when appropriate. this often leads to great discoveries and i believe this last part is in alignment with your point of view. assumptions are like blind spots and the trick is identifying the blind spots that haven't been noticed before.
"A slot screwdriver can be... used as a pry-bar (I have a big one that my buddies and I call "The Persuader"). Or a chisel. Or as a weapon. Even as a fireplace poker."
heathen.;)
its because of people like you that i have to lock my toolchest. j/k
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I've had DSL for almost 2 years and i've only had one problem so far. My line got noisy and became mostly useless but PacBell came out only few days after i reported the problem and fixed it. 3 days of downtime in 2 years for a home office connection isn't bad when you consider the incredibly high demand for DSL service.
Only thing that makes me worry a little is that PacBell DSL is now handled by SBC. That can sometimes be aggravating when you wait on hold to talk to PacBell and then they transfer you to SBC and you have to wait on hold again but so far its been ok.
I see a lot of discussion involving this doesn't matter because of this problem or that problem or some other problem.
I think these people are missing the point. Sure there are thousands of really challenging problems that need to be overcome in order to keep Moore's Law on track through the next decade. But... each problem has to be solved individually and this is one potential solution to one problem.
EBeam, XRay and other Next Generation Lithography methods look promising but each of these has their own problems as well. The industry has long taken the approach of attacking problems from various angles and letting the best suited technology lead the way.
That's what this article is about. Its one possible approach to one problem that we know we need to solve.
the covalent radius for silicon is about 0.2nm that means that a 0.18um silicon feature is roughly 1000 atoms wide. the ratio of feature size to atom/molecule size isn't really an issue at the moment although it eventually will be.
Did you bother to read that article you linked to?
Here's a snipet: "So is Nader a hypocrite for amassing a personal fortune while advocating consumer rights and railing against corporate power? In a word, no."
Is Nader perfect? of course not but he's at least 3 orders of magnitude better than any of the other candidates.
:)
The gov. has the power but it has put it up for sale to the highest corporate bidder. I believe this is the real problem. This practice of corporate lobbying must stop.
The corps. get tax breaks and license to destroy the environment and the politicians get big fat kickbacks. Obviously neither the gov. or the corps. will be interested in putting a stop to this practice.
So how do WE stop it? Vote for a president with some integrity.
The only wasted vote is the one that isn't cast for the candidate you think is best suited.
In other words if you think Ralph Nader is the best candidate and you don't vote for him for whatever reason then you have wasted your vote.
What sense does it make to vote for Gore just to make sure Bush doesn't win? They both suck and neither of them will lead this country in a responsible manner. Please vote for the candidate that you think would be the best president. MHO
the U.S. is not a pure democrocy. it is a REPRESENTATIONAL democracy. we elect candidates to represent us. they are the gov. we are not the gov.
our gov. has been owned by the corporate lobbyists for a long time now. we will never have a chance to control the gov. until the lobbying is brought under control. neither Gore or Bush will do this so vote for someone else.
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The 2 party system wants you to think the election is futile. By believing that you have played into their hands and become docile and easy to control. Only through awareness can the people take back what is rightfully theirs (The government).
Vote against the 2 party system.
Vote for Ralph Nader. This guys got 100 times the integrity of the other candidates combined.
Appologies for being OT but you pushed a button and I felt compelled to respond.
I could be mistaken but i thought that Sony dropped the VGS suit when it became clear that they would lose. It was speculated that they dropped the suit specifically so that it would not set a precedent against them in the future.
Can someone verify this? I could be wrong and i'm at work now so can't spend time looking it up.
You are correct about intercontinental communication and the internet backbone. But at home i surf the web and do email wireless from my laptop and having used it only for a couple of months, i would never give it up now the same way i would never give up my dsl line.
Sorry i didn't have time to read your whole comment but wouldn't it be a simple matter to create a program that checks incoming data for unsecure keys? Of course this would only guarantee that YOUR outgoing data was safe.
I agree with you when you are talking about an individual workstation.
However i often find myself at other peoples workstations helping them or getting help from them. When their UI is not the same an my own, I don't have much choice in that.
Granted this does not entail the bulk of my UI interaction and i find myself now playing the role of "hair splitter". In any case, i think this topic doesn't warrant a lengthy discussion. Thanks for clarifying your comments, i slightly misinterpreted your original post.
How is being "forced" into the same user experience any better or worse than being "forced" into differing or fragmented user experiences? I don't see any substance to that statement.
The whole discussion is splitting hairs IMO. It all depends on your definition of an "OS".
I was under the impression that the point of the "vote auction" site was to point out that if corruption on the "vote auction" level isn't acceptable then why is it accepted at the legistlative level? And why isn't anyone concerned about it given that it is a much more dangerous problem at that level?
Education should receive MUCH more government funding. The profits of these projects should go back into the universities NOT into fat cat corporate pockets.
Time to get the government working for the people again. Please consider voting for Ralph Nader.
I agree. I believe the root of the problem is that our government is now controlled by corporations. It is no longer a government for the people. Which is why I'm voting for Ralph Nader. Democrats and Rebublicans have no significant differences anymore. The important issues are never talked about and are pushed to the side in favor of corporate interests. Just look at gasoline prices, the oil companies claim that prices were raised because their costs increased but then why did they have record earnings and profits last quarter? We the people need to take back our government and make it work for us. http://www.votenader.com
You could project the center view image on the wall but it would be best to use projection screens for the side views so you could angle them. Of course this also magnifies the motion sickness factor by quite a bit.
Before you even start in, I'm making a philosophical point here. I understand the difficulty of working with partners without disclosing information. Apple has to accept some of the blame here. Presumably ATI did not devine this information. The original source of the information is Apple. If Apple had not let the information out, it could not have been leaked.
a person cannot adhere strictly to your "question everything" philosophy and still live their life realisticly. one must make an enormous number of assumptions every day. this is not necessarily a bad thing.
for example, do you test the floor ahead of you before you take a step to make sure that the floor will support you? of course not, it would take too long and is wasted effort. these things go by degrees. if i were looking for survivors in an earthquake damaged building then testing the floor might make sense. you have to play the percentages when appropriate and for the most part one can assume that the ground underfoot is solid.
that being said i think it is important to identify assumptions and test them when appropriate. this often leads to great discoveries and i believe this last part is in alignment with your point of view. assumptions are like blind spots and the trick is identifying the blind spots that haven't been noticed before.
"A slot screwdriver can be ... used as a pry-bar (I have a big one that my buddies and I call "The Persuader"). Or a chisel. Or as a weapon. Even as a fireplace poker."
;)
heathen.
its because of people like you that i have to lock my toolchest. j/k