But steroids don't just suppress the immune response to the cold. They just generally suppress the immune system. Thus you may cure your cold symptoms at the price of allowing an infection that otherwise would been stopped cold to progress.
They don't seem very interested in unblockable ads. If they really wanted to get by adblockers they'd insert the ads right into the page rather than linking them from an ad server.
I think that what these guys are after is financing the creation of effective captchas with ad revenue. I don't think it will work.
Are you referring to "point-contact devices" as in working on similar principles to cat's whisker or crystal-crystal rectifiers?
No.
Are we talking going back to the really nice clear and low-power function of pre-transistor devices, but with reliability and economies of scale those devices never achieved?
I am saying, the warning should not be private/ignorable, after that.
Why? They are free to choose. They chose.
If you want to call it bullying, so be it. But this is the equivalent of a bully saying "I am going to beat you up behind the school after class." and then you actually show up behind the school for him to do it. He may be the bully, but your still the idiot.
You have a choice. You could do as I do and refuse to subject yourself to it (yes, it's inconvenient. If you really cared you'd do it anyway.) and express your outrage at it to your representatives. If a substantial fraction of the population followed my example the crap would stop.
That may be where the money is but the interesting applications are elsewhere. For example, MiMs could be useful as mixers and detectors all the way up to the visible. If they can be fabricated with a negative-resistance region they could serve as oscillators over the same range.
They use different metals with different work functions on each side of a nanometer-scale insulating layer. MiMs have been made before using point-contact techniques but are hard to make and touchy. These guys claim to be able to make them using planar technology.
No. It's that MiMs are fast. The best junction diodes run out of steam at a few THz while MiMs work up into optical frequencies and so can be used to rectify sunlight. MiMs have been made before and are used in some exotic lab equipment but those point-contact devices are hard to make and touchy. These guys claim to have produced MiMs using more or less standard planar processes.
Here's a paper that explains MiM theory, though it isn't about this development.
No it isn't. A manual lawnmower is well-designed. The Web is like a lawnmower built by Rube Goldberg out of dozens of pairs of scissors, lots of string, some boards and a child's wagon, propelled by a large dog and powered by the wagging of his tail (the cookies are to get him to wag it). It's now had a clippings bag and a fertilizer cart added following the same design principles. An automatic dandilion remover, a dethatcher, and an aerator are coming soon (and several more dogs).
> Merely descriptive words are not supposed to be trademarks...
Descriptive words can be trademarks for products they don't describe: APPLE for example. You would have to show that "pad" was commonly used to describe that sort of device before Apple started selling theirs.
>...with minor tweaks you could make one hell of a HERF weapon out of one...
Not likely. These things operate at about 27KHz. On the other hand, you might be able to generate a couple of kilowatts of ultrasound by fabricating a "speaker cone" from a resonant metal disk and some magnets and use it to curdle your brain.
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> None of them are going to be popular with customers, though.
Charging for "bandwidth" would be fine with me.
Worse: it costs nearly as much as a trunk and serves only one customer.
Yeah. If the regulators had had their way we'd all have ISDN by now.
But steroids don't just suppress the immune response to the cold. They just generally suppress the immune system. Thus you may cure your cold symptoms at the price of allowing an infection that otherwise would been stopped cold to progress.
It's possible that there is a good reason why that mechanism is not already more powerful.
They don't seem very interested in unblockable ads. If they really wanted to get by adblockers they'd insert the ads right into the page rather than linking them from an ad server.
I think that what these guys are after is financing the creation of effective captchas with ad revenue. I don't think it will work.
> What does that tell you about consumer choice?
That most consumers choose what they want, not what you think they should have.
Many metal oxides are insulators.
MOS stands for "Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor". The metal is usually aluminum, the oxide silicon dioxide (an insulator), and the semiconductor silicon.
> ...CMOS diodes.
There is no such thing as a CMOS diode.
No.
No.
They are not going to sue individual users in the USA. There are no statutory damages for patent infringement: all they can get is actual damages.
Why? They are free to choose. They chose.
Not if I beat the crap out of him.
I guess that must be why there were no transistors in consumer products until the late 1990s.
You have a choice. You could do as I do and refuse to subject yourself to it (yes, it's inconvenient. If you really cared you'd do it anyway.) and express your outrage at it to your representatives. If a substantial fraction of the population followed my example the crap would stop.
That may be where the money is but the interesting applications are elsewhere. For example, MiMs could be useful as mixers and detectors all the way up to the visible. If they can be fabricated with a negative-resistance region they could serve as oscillators over the same range.
They use different metals with different work functions on each side of a nanometer-scale insulating layer. MiMs have been made before using point-contact techniques but are hard to make and touchy. These guys claim to be able to make them using planar technology.
No. It's that MiMs are fast. The best junction diodes run out of steam at a few THz while MiMs work up into optical frequencies and so can be used to rectify sunlight. MiMs have been made before and are used in some exotic lab equipment but those point-contact devices are hard to make and touchy. These guys claim to have produced MiMs using more or less standard planar processes.
Here's a paper that explains MiM theory, though it isn't about this development.
...that you people continue to put up with this crap.
An "artist" once got a government grant for photographing a cross in a jar of urine.
It would appear that you do not know what a manual lawnmower is.
And let's replace IPv4 while we're at it!
> HTTP is like a manual lawn mower.
No it isn't. A manual lawnmower is well-designed. The Web is like a lawnmower built by Rube Goldberg out of dozens of pairs of scissors, lots of string, some boards and a child's wagon, propelled by a large dog and powered by the wagging of his tail (the cookies are to get him to wag it). It's now had a clippings bag and a fertilizer cart added following the same design principles. An automatic dandilion remover, a dethatcher, and an aerator are coming soon (and several more dogs).
> Merely descriptive words are not supposed to be trademarks...
Descriptive words can be trademarks for products they don't describe: APPLE for example. You would have to show that "pad" was commonly used to describe that sort of device before Apple started selling theirs.
So that's the reason. None of them noticed his messages because they were too busy staring at his crotch.
> ...with minor tweaks you could make one hell of a HERF weapon out of one...
Not likely. These things operate at about 27KHz. On the other hand, you might be able to generate a couple of kilowatts of ultrasound by fabricating a "speaker cone" from a resonant metal disk and some magnets and use it to curdle your brain.