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The other advantage a wrap around gate provides is the ability to pinch off the channel at LOWER voltage. This is essential for low power high speed transistors. The overall improvement is lower leakage at lower voltage, lower current, and thus lower power at high speed.
This moves a 90 Watt part to a 9 watt part at about the same speed, or much lower Watt part at slower speeds. This is essential to bring desktop features to Ultrabooks and other low profile devices with relatively small batteries. Long battery life and high performance is important in mobile devices. Low power draw and high performance is important in server farms as a cost cutting item. Again this is why this breakthrough is such a big deal.
As a price sensitive guy and knowing small things get lost or broken, I buy the cheap Coby or Maxel USB MP3 players. At under $20 a pop, they barely cost more than a USB thumb drive of the same size. They attach without needing drivers as a mass storage device. I have several now. I use one for Librivox audio books, and one for music. Due to the mass storage mount method, It is 100% compatible with Linux, Apple, and Windows machines. It is not compatible with any type of DRM, which is fine by me. Only those who provide or sell in DRM free formats get my business.
I was eligible for sub service when I enlisted many years ago, but due to acne, the high humidity high oxygen environment was not a good match so I went into cryptology instead. It is also a good field with highly sought after skills.
Basic rule of thumb is go for advanced fields, avoid student loans, get hired after your service, and enjoy the benefits of not being in debt. When the high student loan guys have to turn down jobs as they can't make ends meet, you remain employed and in demand during high unemployment. This has worked for me in the 1980's and now.
Being slightly underpaid is much better than being unemployed when companies downsize. I've never been downsized.
Having the skill to drive a tank in a mine field without being blown up is a job skill for heavy construction. In my case, repair and service of crypto equipment with the appropriate background checks, is appealing to companies dealing with sensitive information. The background, the intelligence clearance, and the electronics training were valuable. Not all recruits get the same opportunities. A history of legal problems, drug or alcohol abuse, running with the wrong friends, etc, would have disqualified me.
Just military service does not qualify you for any position.
This video and scores does not include the feedback loop of the course exercises. The feedback of the coursework is where the pre-conceptions are corrected. Reviewing a vid can be a moment of discovery when you find a preconception is false.
SIP to SIP like Skype to Skype is free anywhere in the world. Unlike Skype with one exception, I can use an adapter to connect a telephone instead of having to use a soft phone in a computer that is on all the time.
Skype may have a better plan to call cell phones than SIP. Adding Google Voice is just a bonus for those who can use it.
It is time to move from Skype to SIP. With Skype, you pay for a Skype In number. With SIP you can get several for free. My SIP account is free, includes a free INUM number. Linking a free DID from IPKall or other provider is a piece of cake. With a free DID and Google Voice, calls to all the US and Canada are free. Worried about Skype compatibility? The SIP provider has had a SIP-Skype gateway for several months now. It is free too.
If you want Skype to ring a phone, you have only one option for hardware. If you want SIP to ring a real phone, any SIP compatible VOIP phone or SIP ATA will work fine with it. Traveling? I can have up to 3 SIP phones connected in several locations at the same time. First one answered takes the call. The Multi Presence is free too. Great for a business line at home and work.
Man this sounds like an infomercial. I won't mention any free SIP providers by name. Google them. There are several.
Another news story totally lacking facts.. Why can't any news organization list the ground track of any of these? Knowing if it geosynchronous, geostationary, Polar, or other orbit can list the maximum latitudes this craft will reach. They make me do the research myself. The ground track is listed here; http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=20638&lat=50.733&lng=7.100&loc=Bonn&alt=57&tz=CET
Northern Siberia, parts of Alaska, Greenland and Antarctica can't be hit by this. Saying it can come down anywhere is FALSE.
I don't know why you were modded down. Valid question. If you read the article, after he published his results,the industry tried to remove his funding by demanding he be fired. I would guess that this puts him in the Non Industry. Thanks for asking, but I thought it was clear in the article. I do see I had an error. Wrong state. It was UW instead of Oregon.
His funding was from the University of Washington.
Few paid much attention, and mobile phone use exploded. But the UW scientists said they became targets of an industry strategy aimed at discrediting and suppressing studies raising health concerns about cell phone radiation.
"They even wrote letters to the UW trying to get me fired," said Lai, a gentle man who laughs easily despite being on the losing side in a war between business and science.
For us poor linux users with poor Skype performance and and such, I've used SIP instead. Just recently the SIP provider IPPI.fr has added a skype gateway that appears to work great.
I rarely use Bit Torrent as FTP is much faster for legal files, even if I was talking to someone on Skype while using BT, It would not show a connection. The Skype connection would be an IP in France.
I use SIP instead of Skype. i can connect it to a telephone with an old Vontage adapter or a Linksys PAP2T. With IPKall, I have unlimited free incoming minutes. Like Skype, SIP to SIP calls are free worldwide. With IPPI, I also get a free INUM number for incoming international calls. Most SIP accounts can call a INUM for free. The speed dialer included allows me to enter Skype numbers so they can be speed dialed with just the phone. No computer needed.
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Herberman, he said, was referring to the so-called Interphone study – a 13-country, $15 million European epidemiological study of tumor rates among cell phone users – which was completed in 2005 but remains unpublished because of disagreement among the scientists (some of them funded by industry) on how to interpret the results.
His result showed clearly this;
Lai noted with a chuckle that if you subtract from the literature all of the industry-funded scientific studies, most research shows evidence of health effects from cell phone use.
A study did find a correlation between the funder of the study and the result of the study
The studies combined show about a 50% inconclusive result of the study.
The data was separated between the Industry funded studies and non industry funded studies and a strong correlation was found.
Industry funded studies find cell phones safe in 3/4's of the studies and only 1/4 show them not safe. Non industry funded studies show the phones unsafe in 3/4's of the studies and safe in only 1/4 of the studies.
They don't list it, but supply your credentials anyway. It worked for me.
Advanced electronics program, USN Apprenticeship in two way and Broadcast radio and television with Licence ISCET certification Applied for R&D at a major semiconductor manufacture. Been there ever since.
Total number of months unemployed in my background.. 1/4. Took a week to become re-employed when a shop went out of business in the 1980's recession.
Total $ of student loans.. None.
I can underbid my counterparts for employment. This has it's advantages.
Nah supply and demand is broken. When you need a degree to get a job, and you need a job to live, then the demand side skyrockets.
Bzzt wrong. You can get a lower paying job, but without the overhead of a loan you can get a secure job with higher take home pay. Don't get me wrong. I did not say don't get an education. I said don't get a degree. Get self taught, then an apprenticeship, then a recognized certification, and then apply for better jobs.
My path was USN in advanced electronics. My basic was self taught. Challenged the basic portion and skipped it. This is documented. Skipped some levels in the advanced courses too. I immediately found employment out of the Navy during the recession of the 1980's. Work for skilled and trained people was there, especially for those employers looking for lower cost employees.
I later picked up my ISCET certification. I now work in engineering in the semiconductor industry in R&D. Degree is still missing. I don't care.
I wonder if the real reason was to get access to the parking lot so they could fill it up with the concert and concert people to keep people from the Apple store opening. Big concert = no parking left. That could be the real reason if you are a conspiracy theorist.
As the owner of a recycled number, About the time you think all the collection calls are cleared, more of the debt is cycled to collections who buy old debt and try again. I kept getting new collections calls years after we got our phone. The last ones were after we had the phone 5 years. I expect another rash near the 7 year mark for the stature of limitations limit.
If you don't want to leave your computer on 24/7, it is not difficult to get a free SIP account and a free DID phone number to forward your GV number to. An Analog Telephone Adaptor finishes the link to ring a telephone. I have mine set up and love it. I have a free second line with unlimited calling to all the US and Canada. A 3rd line is for the FAX. Thanks Google, Ekiga and IPKALL
Just move sometime and get a new phone number. With the high unemployment, the odds are high that your number came from someone who was behind in payments. That is how I got a whole bunch of collectors calling. Jeromy, if you are out there, I hate you. I got your old number. I've pretty much abandoned the land line and moved to a Google Voice number and forwarded it to a SIP account and VOIP adaptor. I answer the VOIP phone and let the machine deal with the collections.
Google voice makes it easy to block spam calls. Nice touch. So far I have not needed to use it, so I can't say how well it works. Wish I had that on my landline.
Do what I did. Call them back on their 800 number. The call is their nickel. Use Audacity and simply leave a robo message back. They will get the hint. Use this for fully robo calls with nobody online. Your bot calls me and wasted my time and money, now my bot will return the favor. Next time call with a real person that can fix the error.
I had a collection agency robocall my landline for about 3 months calling at all hours about 3 times a day. It left a message to call an 800 number and ask for Bob. I ignored it as a sales call. If I picked up the phone, there was NEVER a person on the line. It was a robo call to deliver a message.
A Google search showed the 800 number was a collection agency. Bob was fictitious to cue the agency it was a delinquent caller. This collection agency was hammering an old number that became my new landline.
I figured they pay the bill for calls to 800 numbers so I recorded a message and started calling the 800 number with the message "Your autodialer is running amook on my landline. Please call me to let me know when you have this fixed. Ask for Bob" When I got a call, I called back late at night (I work nights) and left them the message. I finally got a real person to call. A short exchange let them know the number was a new phone. I also gave them a real hard time as there was no way for anyone to stop the robo calls if they did not speak English.
If it happens again, I have a Russian co worker I'll have call them and only speak Russian except for "Ask for Bob"
Robo dialing is one thing. Robo calls with nobody on the line should be 100% outlawed, even for collections.
The bundling is even worse. With Comcast, they dropped the Internet only option. I had switched to DSL for faster speed and less throttling. They recently pulled fiber and are knocking on doors offering Internet at 20 meg speeds for less than my 6 meg DSL, which was an upgrade from my 2 meg original Comcast. The catch is, it comes bundled with basic cable, no opt out. The nice thing is the bundle is currently less than my DSL. I'll be giving the DSL guys an option to match the offer before switching again.
Monsanto with ownership of the entire Corn and Soybean GM intelectial property that cross contaminated the adjacent fields is another issue. I'm not sure apples are as owned by corporations as corn and soybeans.
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The other advantage a wrap around gate provides is the ability to pinch off the channel at LOWER voltage. This is essential for low power high speed transistors. The overall improvement is lower leakage at lower voltage, lower current, and thus lower power at high speed.
This moves a 90 Watt part to a 9 watt part at about the same speed, or much lower Watt part at slower speeds. This is essential to bring desktop features to Ultrabooks and other low profile devices with relatively small batteries. Long battery life and high performance is important in mobile devices. Low power draw and high performance is important in server farms as a cost cutting item. Again this is why this breakthrough is such a big deal.
As a price sensitive guy and knowing small things get lost or broken, I buy the cheap Coby or Maxel USB MP3 players. At under $20 a pop, they barely cost more than a USB thumb drive of the same size. They attach without needing drivers as a mass storage device. I have several now. I use one for Librivox audio books, and one for music. Due to the mass storage mount method, It is 100% compatible with Linux, Apple, and Windows machines. It is not compatible with any type of DRM, which is fine by me. Only those who provide or sell in DRM free formats get my business.
Using Ubuntu Studio Edition with the real time kernel is great for recording. No more buffer under runs.
I was eligible for sub service when I enlisted many years ago, but due to acne, the high humidity high oxygen environment was not a good match so I went into cryptology instead. It is also a good field with highly sought after skills.
Basic rule of thumb is go for advanced fields, avoid student loans, get hired after your service, and enjoy the benefits of not being in debt. When the high student loan guys have to turn down jobs as they can't make ends meet, you remain employed and in demand during high unemployment. This has worked for me in the 1980's and now.
Being slightly underpaid is much better than being unemployed when companies downsize. I've never been downsized.
Having the skill to drive a tank in a mine field without being blown up is a job skill for heavy construction. In my case, repair and service of crypto equipment with the appropriate background checks, is appealing to companies dealing with sensitive information. The background, the intelligence clearance, and the electronics training were valuable. Not all recruits get the same opportunities. A history of legal problems, drug or alcohol abuse, running with the wrong friends, etc, would have disqualified me.
Just military service does not qualify you for any position.
This video and scores does not include the feedback loop of the course exercises. The feedback of the coursework is where the pre-conceptions are corrected. Reviewing a vid can be a moment of discovery when you find a preconception is false.
I am taking some lessons. I am learning. Additional videos from other sources are great reinforcement of learned concepts. I recommend the Physics for Future Presidents.
http://physics.berkeley.edu/academics/Courses/physics10/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html
SIP to SIP like Skype to Skype is free anywhere in the world. Unlike Skype with one exception, I can use an adapter to connect a telephone instead of having to use a soft phone in a computer that is on all the time.
Skype may have a better plan to call cell phones than SIP. Adding Google Voice is just a bonus for those who can use it.
It is time to move from Skype to SIP. With Skype, you pay for a Skype In number. With SIP you can get several for free. My SIP account is free, includes a free INUM number. Linking a free DID from IPKall or other provider is a piece of cake. With a free DID and Google Voice, calls to all the US and Canada are free. Worried about Skype compatibility? The SIP provider has had a SIP-Skype gateway for several months now. It is free too.
If you want Skype to ring a phone, you have only one option for hardware. If you want SIP to ring a real phone, any SIP compatible VOIP phone or SIP ATA will work fine with it. Traveling? I can have up to 3 SIP phones connected in several locations at the same time. First one answered takes the call. The Multi Presence is free too. Great for a business line at home and work.
Man this sounds like an infomercial. I won't mention any free SIP providers by name. Google them. There are several.
Yet in the seafood industry, shells are tossed in the trash. Escargot shells should be "recycled".
Another news story totally lacking facts.. Why can't any news organization list the ground track of any of these? Knowing if it geosynchronous, geostationary, Polar, or other orbit can list the maximum latitudes this craft will reach. They make me do the research myself. The ground track is listed here;
http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=20638&lat=50.733&lng=7.100&loc=Bonn&alt=57&tz=CET
Northern Siberia, parts of Alaska, Greenland and Antarctica can't be hit by this. Saying it can come down anywhere is FALSE.
I don't know why you were modded down. Valid question. If you read the article, after he published his results,the industry tried to remove his funding by demanding he be fired. I would guess that this puts him in the Non Industry. Thanks for asking, but I thought it was clear in the article. I do see I had an error. Wrong state. It was UW instead of Oregon.
His funding was from the University of Washington.
Few paid much attention, and mobile phone use exploded. But the UW scientists said they became targets of an industry strategy aimed at discrediting and suppressing studies raising health concerns about cell phone radiation.
"They even wrote letters to the UW trying to get me fired," said Lai, a gentle man who laughs easily despite being on the losing side in a war between business and science.
For us poor linux users with poor Skype performance and and such, I've used SIP instead. Just recently the SIP provider IPPI.fr has added a skype gateway that appears to work great.
I rarely use Bit Torrent as FTP is much faster for legal files, even if I was talking to someone on Skype while using BT, It would not show a connection. The Skype connection would be an IP in France.
I use SIP instead of Skype. i can connect it to a telephone with an old Vontage adapter or a Linksys PAP2T. With IPKall, I have unlimited free incoming minutes. Like Skype, SIP to SIP calls are free worldwide. With IPPI, I also get a free INUM number for incoming international calls. Most SIP accounts can call a INUM for free. The speed dialer included allows me to enter Skype numbers so they can be speed dialed with just the phone. No computer needed.
New: ippi lets you call Skype users for free!
If you follow ippi on Twitter and Facebook, you already know since late July that ippi can make calls to Skype users for free! Even better, ippi also allows Skype users free calls to users ippi !
Directions:
- To call from ippi to Skype, dial skype_id@skype.ippi.com and start the call
- To call from Skype to ippi, dial skype2ippi (add this contact for ease), then, when you get a chat message, send as a chat message the ippi login you wish to call (or ippi number)
For more information, our support is at your disposal.
Can't edit.. The research was by Henry Lai of Oregon State University. He compared the studies and looked for the correlation.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Cell-phone-cancer-risk-debated-1281040.php
Herberman, he said, was referring to the so-called Interphone study – a 13-country, $15 million European epidemiological study of tumor rates among cell phone users – which was completed in 2005 but remains unpublished because of disagreement among the scientists (some of them funded by industry) on how to interpret the results.
His result showed clearly this;
Lai noted with a chuckle that if you subtract from the literature all of the industry-funded scientific studies, most research shows evidence of health effects from cell phone use.
A study did find a correlation between the funder of the study and the result of the study
The studies combined show about a 50% inconclusive result of the study.
The data was separated between the Industry funded studies and non industry funded studies and a strong correlation was found.
Industry funded studies find cell phones safe in 3/4's of the studies and only 1/4 show them not safe.
Non industry funded studies show the phones unsafe in 3/4's of the studies and safe in only 1/4 of the studies.
http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation
They don't list it, but supply your credentials anyway. It worked for me.
Advanced electronics program, USN
Apprenticeship in two way and Broadcast radio and television with Licence
ISCET certification
Applied for R&D at a major semiconductor manufacture. Been there ever since.
Total number of months unemployed in my background.. 1/4. Took a week to become re-employed when a shop went out of business in the 1980's recession.
Total $ of student loans.. None.
I can underbid my counterparts for employment. This has it's advantages.
Nah supply and demand is broken. When you need a degree to get a job, and you need a job to live, then the demand side skyrockets.
Bzzt wrong. You can get a lower paying job, but without the overhead of a loan you can get a secure job with higher take home pay. Don't get me wrong. I did not say don't get an education. I said don't get a degree. Get self taught, then an apprenticeship, then a recognized certification, and then apply for better jobs.
My path was USN in advanced electronics. My basic was self taught. Challenged the basic portion and skipped it. This is documented. Skipped some levels in the advanced courses too. I immediately found employment out of the Navy during the recession of the 1980's. Work for skilled and trained people was there, especially for those employers looking for lower cost employees.
I later picked up my ISCET certification. I now work in engineering in the semiconductor industry in R&D. Degree is still missing. I don't care.
I wonder if the real reason was to get access to the parking lot so they could fill it up with the concert and concert people to keep people from the Apple store opening. Big concert = no parking left. That could be the real reason if you are a conspiracy theorist.
As the owner of a recycled number, About the time you think all the collection calls are cleared, more of the debt is cycled to collections who buy old debt and try again. I kept getting new collections calls years after we got our phone. The last ones were after we had the phone 5 years. I expect another rash near the 7 year mark for the stature of limitations limit.
If you don't want to leave your computer on 24/7, it is not difficult to get a free SIP account and a free DID phone number to forward your GV number to. An Analog Telephone Adaptor finishes the link to ring a telephone. I have mine set up and love it. I have a free second line with unlimited calling to all the US and Canada. A 3rd line is for the FAX. Thanks Google, Ekiga and IPKALL
Just move sometime and get a new phone number. With the high unemployment, the odds are high that your number came from someone who was behind in payments. That is how I got a whole bunch of collectors calling. Jeromy, if you are out there, I hate you. I got your old number. I've pretty much abandoned the land line and moved to a Google Voice number and forwarded it to a SIP account and VOIP adaptor. I answer the VOIP phone and let the machine deal with the collections.
Google voice makes it easy to block spam calls. Nice touch. So far I have not needed to use it, so I can't say how well it works. Wish I had that on my landline.
Do what I did. Call them back on their 800 number. The call is their nickel. Use Audacity and simply leave a robo message back. They will get the hint. Use this for fully robo calls with nobody online. Your bot calls me and wasted my time and money, now my bot will return the favor. Next time call with a real person that can fix the error.
I had a collection agency robocall my landline for about 3 months calling at all hours about 3 times a day. It left a message to call an 800 number and ask for Bob. I ignored it as a sales call. If I picked up the phone, there was NEVER a person on the line. It was a robo call to deliver a message.
A Google search showed the 800 number was a collection agency. Bob was fictitious to cue the agency it was a delinquent caller. This collection agency was hammering an old number that became my new landline.
I figured they pay the bill for calls to 800 numbers so I recorded a message and started calling the 800 number with the message "Your autodialer is running amook on my landline. Please call me to let me know when you have this fixed. Ask for Bob" When I got a call, I called back late at night (I work nights) and left them the message. I finally got a real person to call. A short exchange let them know the number was a new phone. I also gave them a real hard time as there was no way for anyone to stop the robo calls if they did not speak English.
If it happens again, I have a Russian co worker I'll have call them and only speak Russian except for "Ask for Bob"
Robo dialing is one thing. Robo calls with nobody on the line should be 100% outlawed, even for collections.
The bundling is even worse. With Comcast, they dropped the Internet only option. I had switched to DSL for faster speed and less throttling. They recently pulled fiber and are knocking on doors offering Internet at 20 meg speeds for less than my 6 meg DSL, which was an upgrade from my 2 meg original Comcast. The catch is, it comes bundled with basic cable, no opt out. The nice thing is the bundle is currently less than my DSL. I'll be giving the DSL guys an option to match the offer before switching again.
Here is the link to the WWII use of the technology. I was going to post the info, but you beat me to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
Monsanto with ownership of the entire Corn and Soybean GM intelectial property that cross contaminated the adjacent fields is another issue. I'm not sure apples are as owned by corporations as corn and soybeans.