A few months ago I was on a United flight from Chicago to San Francisco with a linux-based entertainment system. They appeared to do routine pre-emptive reboots when the plane was on the ground.
I believe the results. The next research should be to confirm my suspicion that having a tiny handful of low-paid administrators produces better results than having a large number of over paid self-important administrators.
On the contrary. The firm very deliberately posted the video as an advertisement. They put about 10 videos on youtube that covered the entire presentation, and then linked to it from their site.
Silicon Valley got its start because William Shockley started Shockley Transistor with people he brought from Bell Labs. They left, and started their own companies, from which other people left to start their companies, and so on, and so on.
When Shockley was looking for where to start his company it came down to Pasadena vs Palo Alto, both of which he had lived in as a child. An administrator at Stanford recognized the importance of encouraging new companies and leased Shockley space that Stanford owned. If Cal Tech had made a better offer, Si Valley might have been in Pasadena...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does more harm than good. By preventing diseases and feeding people in the third world without doing something about the unstable birthrates, they are only guaranteeing that when the population exceeds the new (higher) carrying capacity, a larger population will suffer disease and starvation.
Does anyone have a *real* reference for this, like a paper on arxiv.org? The popularized description doesn't make any sense to me, since the bandgap of the wetting layer is above that of the dot.
"quantum dot" is entirely generic and its use predates any commercial interest by many years.
Does anyone have a *real* reference for this, like a paper on arxiv.org? The popularized description doesn't make any sense to me, since the bandgap of the wetting layer is above that of the dot.
NASA has consistently pushed the idea that manned space flight gets the public's attention. But the facts indicate otherwise. Photos from the Hubble and interplanetary probes appear on the front pages of newspapers and have a very high "ooh-ahh" factor. In contrast, the public doesn't seem to care at all about astronauts in the space station. Why would they care about people going back to the moon? They've seen those pictures already.
Why do people assume these results imply driving while talking on a phone is dangerous? Perhaps it means that driving while moderately drunk is not as dangerous as people think.
Looking back, I remember the Republicans in congress being pretty quiet those 8 years, except when the whole Monica thing came out.
The republicans certainly fought against Clinton's tax increase. And it's a damned good thing they lost.
I am amazed at how many people forget the story of Clinton's tax increase. Alan Greenspan told Clinton that if he did nothing about the deficit, interest rates would remain high and it would be impossible to fund the social programs that Clinton wanted. So, Clinton pushed a tax increase, which was passed on the tie-breaking vote of Al Gore.
That tax increase was followed by a decreasing deficit (ultimately a surplus), low interest rates, and the longest economic boom in US history.
A huge element of Si technology's success is the way lithography allows mass production. The problem with molecular schemes is that they involve pieces that have to be added to the substrate. William's approach of using crossbars as the basic element gets around this problem somewhat. But Si + lithography is still going to be a more robust technology.
There is also the problem that molecules are delicate objects. You simply can't make millions of molecular switches and expect them all to work. With Si all the switches work often enough that you can make chips. Williams plans on using fault tolerant architectures to get around this problem.
So, HP's program isn't as crazy as a lot of stuff I see at conferences. But it is still far fetched, and I think it will fail because it is competing with Si VLSI instead of aiming for some niche.
Si technology is damned good, and trying to compete with it has been a losing game for decades now. (e.g. GaAs and Josephson junction computers). "Novel" technologies pay off when used for an application for which Si is unsuitable (optics with GaAs, magnetic field detection with Josephson junctions).
However, I will eat my hat if in 20 years (10 years after Moore's 'law' bottoms out) VLSI is done in anythin other than Si.
If you want to actually do something about the way we are being taken for a ride, get on the phone and call your representative or senator. The House and Senate are about to vote on trade agreements with Chile and Singapore That contain immigration provisions that would prevent Congress from setting labor certification rules or limits on the number of intra-company transfer (L-1 visa) workers admitted from these two countries, resulting in the displacement of American workers. Future congressional ability to set numerical limits and worker protection standards for existing guestworker programs would be crippled by these treaties.
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A few months ago I was on a United flight from Chicago to San Francisco with a linux-based entertainment system. They appeared to do routine pre-emptive reboots when the plane was on the ground.
Please explain with detailed examples how Republican speeches and failed votes in the House to defund ACA affected the implementation of the web site.
It's not our business to change them in their home country, but the west shouldn't import people from barbaric countries.
I believe the results. The next research should be to confirm my suspicion that having a tiny handful of low-paid administrators produces better results than having a large number of over paid self-important administrators.
The problem with Libya was that Obama didnt' get permission from Congress.
Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record.
But changing the curriculum and the teacher has a really horrible track record too.
On the contrary. The firm very deliberately posted the video as an advertisement. They put about 10 videos on youtube that covered the entire presentation, and then linked to it from their site.
Silicon Valley got its start because William Shockley started Shockley Transistor with people he brought from Bell Labs. They left, and started their own companies, from which other people left to start their companies, and so on, and so on.
When Shockley was looking for where to start his company it came down to Pasadena vs Palo Alto, both of which he had lived in as a child. An administrator at Stanford recognized the importance of encouraging new companies and leased Shockley space that Stanford owned. If Cal Tech had made a better offer, Si Valley might have been in Pasadena...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does more harm than good. By preventing diseases and feeding people in the third world without doing something about the unstable birthrates, they are only guaranteeing that when the population exceeds the new (higher) carrying capacity, a larger population will suffer disease and starvation.
Does anyone have a *real* reference for this, like a paper on arxiv.org? The popularized description doesn't make any sense to me, since the bandgap of the wetting layer is above that of the dot.
"quantum dot" is entirely generic and its use predates any commercial interest by many years.
Does anyone have a *real* reference for this, like a paper on arxiv.org? The popularized description doesn't make any sense to me, since the bandgap of the wetting layer is above that of the dot.
NASA has consistently pushed the idea that manned space flight gets the public's attention. But the facts indicate otherwise. Photos from the Hubble and interplanetary probes appear on the front pages of newspapers and have a very high "ooh-ahh" factor. In contrast, the public doesn't seem to care at all about astronauts in the space station. Why would they care about people going back to the moon? They've seen those pictures already.
Why do people assume these results imply driving while talking on a phone is dangerous? Perhaps it means that driving while moderately drunk is not as dangerous as people think.
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d) Exercise the power we have in democracies, and stop it (at least our participation in the labor arbitrage aspect of it).
I never cease to be amazed at people's fatalism and lack of imagination
Looking back, I remember the Republicans in congress being pretty quiet those 8 years, except when the whole Monica thing came out.
The republicans certainly fought against Clinton's tax increase. And it's a damned good thing they lost.
I am amazed at how many people forget the story of Clinton's tax increase. Alan Greenspan told Clinton that if he did nothing about the deficit, interest rates would remain high and it would be impossible to fund the social programs that Clinton wanted. So, Clinton pushed a tax increase, which was passed on the tie-breaking vote of Al Gore.
That tax increase was followed by a decreasing deficit (ultimately a surplus), low interest rates, and the longest economic boom in US history.
All the hysteria about "gray ooze" is nonsense. "Gray ooze" already exists -it's called bacteria, and we manage to live with it.
The real reason you should shut up and listen to the opinions of you intellectual superiors:
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D(ick)
A huge element of Si technology's success is the way lithography allows mass production. The problem with molecular schemes is that they involve pieces that have to be added to the substrate. William's approach of using crossbars as the basic element gets around this problem somewhat. But Si + lithography is still going to be a more robust technology.
There is also the problem that molecules are delicate objects. You simply can't make millions of molecular switches and expect them all to work. With Si all the switches work often enough that you can make chips. Williams plans on using fault tolerant architectures to get around this problem.
So, HP's program isn't as crazy as a lot of stuff I see at conferences. But it is still far fetched, and I think it will fail because it is competing with Si VLSI instead of aiming for some niche.
Si technology is damned good, and trying to compete with it has been a losing game for decades now. (e.g. GaAs and Josephson junction computers). "Novel" technologies pay off when used for an application for which Si is unsuitable (optics with GaAs, magnetic field detection with Josephson junctions).
However, I will eat my hat if in 20 years (10 years after Moore's 'law' bottoms out) VLSI is done in anythin other than Si.
If you want to actually do something about the way we are being taken for a ride, get on the phone and call your representative or senator. The House and Senate are about to vote on trade agreements with Chile and Singapore That contain immigration provisions that would prevent Congress from setting labor certification rules or limits on the number of intra-company transfer (L-1 visa) workers admitted from these two countries, resulting in the displacement of American workers. Future congressional ability to set numerical limits and worker protection standards for existing guestworker programs would be crippled by these treaties.
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"quantum leap" is worse than just hip. A quantum is the *smallest* possible step. I laugh every time I hear someone say this.