I'm a mac user, and I love my macs, but in my experience, their hardware isnt all that great. I've bought 3 macs since 2001, an ibook, a powerbook, and an imac. The ibook had to have its logic board replaced, and the powerbook had a hard drive failure. Granted, I used these machines pretty heavily, but that's still not quite as realiable as the grandparent poste makes macs out to be.
I've had not troubles with the iMac, but then again, I just bought it!:-D
Japanese research?
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A bit of googling turned out this page with pictures of artificial diamond gems, and wafers. Seems like Sumitomo Electric has some wafers larger than the few milimiters mentioned in the article.
I wonder how far along the Japanese are in this research...
Taiwan is hardly a poor country! Remember, Taiwan is a powerhouse in electronics manufacturing, much of the world's memory chips come from this small country. GDP per capita in Taiwan for 2001 is around $17,000. Only 1% of Taiwanese live below the poverty line.
The information in all these nodes are similar the wikipedia entries (except maybe for the one on Democritus, which would be inferior, since I wrote that one). The advantages I see to the wikipedia over E2 in writing factual information is that the wikipedia allows images, and links to outside sites.
Except that light travels at the speed of light. So if gravity travelled at the speed of light, we'd see the sun wink out at the same time the earth shoots out in a straight line. On the other hand, if gravity were instantaneous, then the earth would actually shoot out in a straight line before we see the sun "wink out".
It looks like they trade off exponential time with exponential space...
Excerpts from the conclusion (emphasis mine):
"The strength of this microfluidic system as an analog computational device is its high parallelism. Its weakness is the exponential increase in its physical size with the number of vertices.... We estimate that the largest graph that might be solved with our algorithm... is 20 vertices.... If we use space more efficiently... a 40-vertex graph can be solved in about 20 min."
Jon, while it is clear from your writings that you feel an affinity with the geek/nerd, you seem to have no real skill in technical matters (ie your first brush will Linux).
So my question is: what do you consider your greatest achievement in terms of things considered as "geeky"? Did you ace advanced calculus as a high school freshman? Built a model rocket that reached the stratosphere? Extracted radioactive material from common household products? Wrote a prime number generator using only 5 lines of code?
My favorites: Asimov, Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett -- yeah he's more popular for pounding out one Discworld novel after another, but he's written some SF as well.
And let's not forget the venerable Arthur C. Clarke.
Also, our reading list would not be complete without sci-fi *short stories* the "Year's Best SF" anthologies are excellent.
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I'm a mac user, and I love my macs, but in my experience, their hardware isnt all that great. I've bought 3 macs since 2001, an ibook, a powerbook, and an imac. The ibook had to have its logic board replaced, and the powerbook had a hard drive failure. Granted, I used these machines pretty heavily, but that's still not quite as realiable as the grandparent poste makes macs out to be.
:-D
I've had not troubles with the iMac, but then again, I just bought it!
A bit of googling turned out this page with pictures of artificial diamond gems, and wafers. Seems like Sumitomo Electric has some wafers larger than the few milimiters mentioned in the article.
I wonder how far along the Japanese are in this research...
Taiwan is hardly a poor country! Remember, Taiwan is a powerhouse in electronics manufacturing, much of the world's memory chips come from this small country. GDP per capita in Taiwan for 2001 is around $17,000. Only 1% of Taiwanese live below the poverty line.
You can find out more from the CIA World Fact BookThe information in all these nodes are similar the wikipedia entries (except maybe for the one on Democritus, which would be inferior, since I wrote that one). The advantages I see to the wikipedia over E2 in writing factual information is that the wikipedia allows images, and links to outside sites.
Except that light travels at the speed of light. So if gravity travelled at the speed of light, we'd see the sun wink out at the same time the earth shoots out in a straight line. On the other hand, if gravity were instantaneous, then the earth would actually shoot out in a straight line before we see the sun "wink out".
It looks like they trade off exponential time with exponential space...
... We estimate that the largest graph that might be solved with our algorithm... is 20 vertices. ... If we use space more efficiently ... a 40-vertex graph can be solved in about 20 min."
Excerpts from the conclusion (emphasis mine):
"The strength of this microfluidic system as an analog computational device is its high parallelism. Its weakness is the exponential increase in its physical size with the number of vertices.
Jon, while it is clear from your writings that you feel an affinity with the geek/nerd, you seem to have no real skill in technical matters (ie your first brush will Linux).
So my question is: what do you consider your greatest achievement in terms of things considered as "geeky"? Did you ace advanced calculus as a high school freshman? Built a model rocket that reached the stratosphere? Extracted radioactive material from common household products? Wrote a prime number generator using only 5 lines of code?
My favorites:
Asimov,
Iain Banks,
Terry Pratchett -- yeah he's more popular for pounding out one Discworld novel after another, but he's written some SF as well.
And let's not forget the venerable Arthur C. Clarke.
Also, our reading list would not be complete without sci-fi *short stories* the "Year's Best SF" anthologies are excellent.