But I work in a large (50k+) high-tech company and NOBODY in my part of the world uses paper planners anymore. Even our over-compensated super-high-up VPs etc. use a combination of RIM, cellphone, and Palm/CE devices to stay on track. When you're quadruple-booked for meetings all day in multiple geographic locations, paper ain't gonna cut it.
My boss wouldn't survive without his blackberry! I make do with an iPAQ and sync when I get to my desk. The only way I get work done is that I don't have a cellphone or a pager. My boss keeps threatening to get me one and I respond with threats to quit.;-)
I got my 17" LCD a little under a year ago and am sold. I don't play games enough to care if there are any artifacts due to "refresh rate". When reading/coding, it's easier on my eyes, doesn't flicker, and is WAY more convenient.
Ever notice your opthamologist or optometrist wears glasses or contacts? Ask why HE never had it done. My optometrist gets more business from patients post-LASIK than from before.
When they can clone me a new eyeball and graft it to my optic nerve with 100% reliability, then I may go for it. Until then I'll stick with my crappy -8.5 and astigmatisms.
OK, yes, these kids were breaking the law. They may (or may not, it's debatable) have been responsible for $ millions in losses. So they've gotten the book thrown at them.
In the meantime, corporate execs everywhere are laughing up their sleeves as they pocket BILLIONS (yes, billions) of dollar that they've stolen, misappropriated, etc. etc. from their stockholders and employees.
Why aren't they rotting in jail as well? One answer: money.
Find me a millionaire who's sitting in jail and I'll be pretty damn surprised.
Oh, yeah: if my last name was "Doody", I would have made my comments anonymously.
Sometimes the translation is as much art as the writing itself.
My wife and I get a kick out of the horrid Japanese->English butchering that passes for subtitling these days.
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Good grief, study some EE instead of spouting off.
Silicon is used to make the TRANSISTORS. This is because it is easy to implant boron etc. into the silicon for making the wells in the transistor. This process (if manufacturable in high volume) will be useful for making the TRANSISTORS. You still have to connect them. What are you going to do, deposit silicon on top of the wafer, now, to make another "mask"? Then melt the silicon and pour in metal on top of that or something? If you've figured out how to do that the combined might of the semiconductor industry wants to pay you a lot of money!
No, you have to deposit various layers of metal and dielectric to connect the transistors. Many ICs have up to 7 or 8 layers of metalization, which means depositing the ILD, putting in interconnects, and depositing the metal (think "wires"). Currently the only way to do this is through photo masking followed by some deposition process.
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Great, you've done the transistors at 10nm. Now how do you do the circuitry? You know, metalization, inter-layer dielectric, interconnects...
You still have to connect the damn dots. And on top of that, your first metalization layer has to be the same "feature size" as your transistors (or else it can't connect them!). So unless they figure out how to get 10nm photo masking for metal deposition, or figure out some other way to put the first metal layer down at 10nm, this is useless.
...but I agree it's moronic. I took an accounting class many moons ago, and the exams went something like this:
"OK. You have to balance this company's books in the next 3 hours, but you aren't permitted to use any reference material whatsoever. And you're limited to a non-graphing calculator, a pencil, and an eraser. Go!"
For the computer graphics course I took, I got an A in the practicum portion and a C+ in the classroom portion (separate classes with separate grades). So, I demonstrated that I could apply all of the techniques I learned, as well as come up with a few of my own, but since I couldn't remember some formulae I did less than spectacularly on a written exam.
Whatever happened to preparing people for the REAL world???
Stallman is asking you to call your beautifully rebuilt '57 Corvette a Craftsman Corvette because you used a Craftsman socket to change the sparkplugs.
Frankly, I think Linus put it better than anybody. "I'm doing this because it's fun...not because I got religion."
The biggest problem in my dept (& company) is its failure to lay the smackdown on its prima donna coders. Unfortunately our prima donnas have greatly inflated opinions of themselves and their skills, and when the time comes to produce there's more talk than walk. Many times we less vocal coders (who are more than equal in skill) wind up picking up the pieces of their failed attempts at providing a product. While management tends to get less-than-gently informed about these incidents (often by me), I rarely witness any repercussions to our smack-talking "code cowboys".
Read "The Computer Connection". It's a story about people who become immortal by having a near-death experience...and the one thing they fear most is rampant cancer induced by physical injury (since, as Bester put it, there's a thin line between cells replacing themselves normally and cancer).
Ach, the horrors perpetrated upon the Japanese by the ignorant pig-American game developers!
Clearly you've never seen Zero Wing. THAT was "*egregious* mistranslation".
"Daikatana" was simply taking a word most Americans were familiar with ("katana") and putting a cool-sounding modifier on it. Do you really think Americans CARE if it's a poor translation??
For a "community" that prides itself on the mindless march to the beat of "information wants to be free", Slashdot sure pays a whole lot of attention to the antics of a money-grubber named Lucas.
Am I the only one who finds the wholesale commercialization of the Star Wars series a little sickening? Everything from Pepsi to Lego has been defiled by Jar Jar.
Not that the original trilogy was that great, nor that there weren't any tie-ins, nor that I like Pepsi, but this is ridiculous.
I for one will not even bother to watch.
Seriously, guys (and gals). Lucas is the Bill Gates of Hollywood.
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But I work in a large (50k+) high-tech company and NOBODY in my part of the world uses paper planners anymore. Even our over-compensated super-high-up VPs etc. use a combination of RIM, cellphone, and Palm/CE devices to stay on track. When you're quadruple-booked for meetings all day in multiple geographic locations, paper ain't gonna cut it.
;-)
My boss wouldn't survive without his blackberry! I make do with an iPAQ and sync when I get to my desk. The only way I get work done is that I don't have a cellphone or a pager. My boss keeps threatening to get me one and I respond with threats to quit.
I got my 17" LCD a little under a year ago and am sold. I don't play games enough to care if there are any artifacts due to "refresh rate". When reading/coding, it's easier on my eyes, doesn't flicker, and is WAY more convenient.
I will NEVER buy another CRT.
...that's a really fast electric *RV*. Not an electric car. THIS is a really fast electric *CAR*:
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Ever notice your opthamologist or optometrist wears glasses or contacts? Ask why HE never had it done. My optometrist gets more business from patients post-LASIK than from before.
When they can clone me a new eyeball and graft it to my optic nerve with 100% reliability, then I may go for it. Until then I'll stick with my crappy -8.5 and astigmatisms.
What??!! I never agreed to that!
How about limited-edition official Jon Bon Jovi Hair Clippings included in every CD?
one might think the physics community was full of frauds.
Of course it is; all of my physics professors claimed to be able to teach!
Great, but AMD needs to get their .13 micron process stable first.
I thought this was particularly ridiculous--you need uncorrected vision of 20/200 to pass. I'm 20/800 but can shoot a pretty tight group.
Where are they going to find computer geeks with good vision??
RPI?!?!?
Please. RPI was my absolute-last-resort safety school.
OK, yes, these kids were breaking the law. They may (or may not, it's debatable) have been responsible for $ millions in losses. So they've gotten the book thrown at them.
In the meantime, corporate execs everywhere are laughing up their sleeves as they pocket BILLIONS (yes, billions) of dollar that they've stolen, misappropriated, etc. etc. from their stockholders and employees.
Why aren't they rotting in jail as well? One answer: money.
Find me a millionaire who's sitting in jail and I'll be pretty damn surprised.
Oh, yeah: if my last name was "Doody", I would have made my comments anonymously.
Sometimes the translation is as much art as the writing itself.
My wife and I get a kick out of the horrid Japanese->English butchering that passes for subtitling these days.
Good grief, study some EE instead of spouting off.
Silicon is used to make the TRANSISTORS. This is because it is easy to implant boron etc. into the silicon for making the wells in the transistor. This process (if manufacturable in high volume) will be useful for making the TRANSISTORS. You still have to connect them. What are you going to do, deposit silicon on top of the wafer, now, to make another "mask"? Then melt the silicon and pour in metal on top of that or something? If you've figured out how to do that the combined might of the semiconductor industry wants to pay you a lot of money!
No, you have to deposit various layers of metal and dielectric to connect the transistors. Many ICs have up to 7 or 8 layers of metalization, which means depositing the ILD, putting in interconnects, and depositing the metal (think "wires"). Currently the only way to do this is through photo masking followed by some deposition process.
Great, you've done the transistors at 10nm. Now how do you do the circuitry? You know, metalization, inter-layer dielectric, interconnects...
You still have to connect the damn dots. And on top of that, your first metalization layer has to be the same "feature size" as your transistors (or else it can't connect them!). So unless they figure out how to get 10nm photo masking for metal deposition, or figure out some other way to put the first metal layer down at 10nm, this is useless.
...but I agree it's moronic. I took an accounting class many moons ago, and the exams went something like this:
"OK. You have to balance this company's books in the next 3 hours, but you aren't permitted to use any reference material whatsoever. And you're limited to a non-graphing calculator, a pencil, and an eraser. Go!"
For the computer graphics course I took, I got an A in the practicum portion and a C+ in the classroom portion (separate classes with separate grades). So, I demonstrated that I could apply all of the techniques I learned, as well as come up with a few of my own, but since I couldn't remember some formulae I did less than spectacularly on a written exam.
Whatever happened to preparing people for the REAL world???
Anyone else read Snowcrash? Didn't one of the characters who worked for the gov't work in a similar setup?
Here's the kicker: I NEED my Kinesis. I also NEED my Wacom tablet. Without them I'd be in the hospital within a week.
I'm glad my employer is smarter (and more profitable) than Sun.
How's your 568 for games? I'm thinking of getting one, despite HP's intent to kill it off.
Specifically, do you run any emulators on it?
No.
Stallman is asking you to call your beautifully rebuilt '57 Corvette a Craftsman Corvette because you used a Craftsman socket to change the sparkplugs.
Frankly, I think Linus put it better than anybody. "I'm doing this because it's fun...not because I got religion."
Climb down off your pulpit and stop shouting.
The biggest problem in my dept (& company) is its failure to lay the smackdown on its prima donna coders. Unfortunately our prima donnas have greatly inflated opinions of themselves and their skills, and when the time comes to produce there's more talk than walk. Many times we less vocal coders (who are more than equal in skill) wind up picking up the pieces of their failed attempts at providing a product. While management tends to get less-than-gently informed about these incidents (often by me), I rarely witness any repercussions to our smack-talking "code cowboys".
Read "The Computer Connection". It's a story about people who become immortal by having a near-death experience...and the one thing they fear most is rampant cancer induced by physical injury (since, as Bester put it, there's a thin line between cells replacing themselves normally and cancer).
Ach, the horrors perpetrated upon the Japanese by the ignorant pig-American game developers!
Clearly you've never seen Zero Wing. THAT was "*egregious* mistranslation".
"Daikatana" was simply taking a word most Americans were familiar with ("katana") and putting a cool-sounding modifier on it. Do you really think Americans CARE if it's a poor translation??
Gates is responsible for the rise of Open Source in the same way that murderers are responsible for the development of the electric chair.
For a "community" that prides itself on the mindless march to the beat of "information wants to be free", Slashdot sure pays a whole lot of attention to the antics of a money-grubber named Lucas.
Am I the only one who finds the wholesale commercialization of the Star Wars series a little sickening? Everything from Pepsi to Lego has been defiled by Jar Jar.
Not that the original trilogy was that great, nor that there weren't any tie-ins, nor that I like Pepsi, but this is ridiculous.
I for one will not even bother to watch.
Seriously, guys (and gals). Lucas is the Bill Gates of Hollywood.
Yes, this is flamebait. Who gives a f*ck.
'Nuff said.
It's not zealotry. It's spite. He'd license under something other than the GPL just to PISS THE GPL ZEALOTS OFF.
And I for one heartily approve!
Did anyone else out there think for a moment, "Oh, no! IBM's going to be making those stupid pen computers that GRID tried to market!" ?