RE: In the meantime, Virgin Galactic or whatever it is called is just a glorified thrill ride that does nothing to advance real commercial space flight.
Not so... the media and the public "believe" that it is commercial space flight... and if successful, business folk will say "there is money to be made in commercial space flight".
Where the money goes... advancement will likely follow IMHO.
So I believe that simply pushing the framework of "commercial space flight" as a business is a positive thing. But like aviation.... it is said: The only way to make a small fortune in aviation, start with a large one.
The capital equipment costs to buy IC testers that run up to 8Ghz is quite prohibitive. In this economy I don't think too many IC production facilities are willing to lay out the funds to buy equipment to test at this higher rate until they have cash flow coming in from the upturn. Until then the test coverage of IC's that run at 8Ghz is minimal and will require bench test methods and "guarantee" by design. This delay if not due to the capital equipment requirements of testing at 8Ghz, will allow suppliers to come up with methods to test the IC's using existing equipment, and gather statistical yield data in the meantime to support alternative testing methodologies.
I am not directly involved in any testing at these rates today, but you would have heard of large capitol purchases from any major supplier of IC's that run at these higher rates if a large capitol purchase was placed with any of the three or four major ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) suppliers. 8Ghz and the newer faster DDR3 speeds are all way outside the performance envelope of most automated test equipment for IC manufacturing today.
If you plot the clock speeds of major MPU's over the last 20 years, you will see that there is a correlation between the max speed of available automated test equipment at the time, and the input clock frequency to the device. PCI-E has created major issues for the IC testing industry due to the bandwidth of the protocol. This is causing a shift in how IC's that have these ports are tested in production.
Skynet reports that the Governor of California will be releasing large numbers of flesh eating robots to do menial jobs at the California DMV. This will resolve the long lines and keep services moving along, as well as serve as an exercise program for state employees. When asked about this the Governor was quoted "Da Copper Tops, Ea, De Empoyees will be Modivated to wurk much hader now."
If we make the wild assumption that 1 in 10 American workers is qualified for the sales/lending positions, to find 21,800 workers that are qualified, all they need to do is lay off 218,000 banking workers. The problem should resolve itself later this month.
Also, Banking revenue should increase significantly due to the $35 NSF fees and late fees these laid off workers will be paying as they discover their unemployment benefits don't quite stretch far enough.
Clearly this is a big "BUY" signal for banking stocks as this is going to be quite a windfall in fee collections this year.
I used to work in the high tech industry with companies that made lots and lots of money. These companys had the fastest bandwidth, and the most creative people coming up with cool solutions to solve problems. But basicly the point was, everyone made lots of money, so if IT infastructure was a problem, they threw money at the problem, and it was solved...period. Since that time, I have seen general compression of the $$ side of things, the bright people go somewhere else, and the people outsource the smart clever IT folks that worked at the the tech company to some outsourcing firm...
and all the call centers are shipped off to India.
So... I think... where is all the money now, and clever people?
Google.
Just ask Google to host your IT applications, they already index the rest of the damn web anyway.
This would beat Googgle to their next big thing anyway... why not just host the world at Google?
Storing your sensitive financial information will be just a spec of content compared to the rest of the web. Then buy some good fiber connections from Verizon. (I'm spoiled with my FIOS service at home...better than the DSL at my companies remote office)... and viola, problem solved. Besides, then anyone can get to your data from anywhere.... the security issue is a myth... who has time to look up all this financial information anyway... most people are reading Dilbert cartoons about how your company outsourced the network.
Plus, you can tell all your clients to buy Google stock, prior to handing over all the data.
-- R
I have been following photonics for the last 20 years, and today I came across something that seemed it needed to be slashdotted.
"This development makes evident that Intel's anticipated Laser Processor is more than just a rumor." http://ightfeet.com
So are electrons obsolete yet? Guess we will have to see if this new cool optical server ships on time. My guess is that we will soon see the light;)
-- R
It's been going on (with occasional Slashdot posts about it) since the late 90's.
Before that we did not exist, as the matrix had not finished updating the virus definitions as part of the boot process.
This is a good thing! Amazing what countries will do to boost immigration. The good news is, I won't need such a large cargo container to ship all my household goods now that my cellphone chargers don't need to come along. The bad news is... I don't OWN a GSM phone.
Hey, this is an interesting angle on the perspective of an MBA analyst.
When I think of possible MBA type vocabulary phrases, I think:
"Merger, Outsource, Offshore" (aka Moo )
Which involves:
"Redeployment, Adjustments, Layoffs, Headcount Reductions" (aka Ralph )
So with all the mooing and ralphing going on, actually focusing on building a tangible product seems to get lost in the shuffle.
I'm sure there are exceptions to this... but it's hard to see when the majority of the US is busy outsourcing.
Wow, I guess I'll go check into Falcon.
So, I'm not sure I get the reference to Brad Pitt... I'll have to check with my girlfriend on that.. to get the female perspective.
The bright spot for me is the accessability of the work network when I'm
remote via VPN RSA key type methods. This is one big plus.
There are terrible downsides. At one point my company outsourced IT to a large
company with a three letter acronym... lets call it "HAL". For most large companies this would be fine, but for a technology company like the one I work for it was a disaster. We are still only now recovering from that decision I believe,
and have returned IT to local control.
The largest issue I see is in the old days, engineering groups like the ones
I worked in, did our own system administration, and we had large capitol budgets to purchase $12,000 per seat engineering Unix workstations. Recently we have had to wait in line to get a purchase approved for a $600 PC running
Windoze. And then many of the IT service people have no idea of what we
need.
For example, I needed a RAID 0 (striped for speed) 2 disk machine setup for
data crunching of very large files. This was delayed for weeks as no one
knew how to image the drive. In the old days, they would have shipped me
the CPU, and I would have configured it myself.
Even today, if I have an IT issue, my call goes to some corporate "call center"
very possibly in India, and a ticket id is assigned. My favorite was when I
had forgotton my Unix login, I emailed IT to get my password reset. They
called me back to ask me what my userID was. I was going to give them the
UserID of the CEO as a joke... they had my EMAIL ID, but couldn't look up
my user id? Hmmm... what has the world come to.
A lot of discussion has jumped to the human girl
with two mothers.
My alleged mind recalls a 50's vintage science
fiction movie, or Outer Limits where woman were
able to reproduce without men, eliminating or
converting male fetuses to female prior to birth.
Does anyone else recall this movie.. or was this
somthing that was projected into my mind while I
was sleeping on the slab, and I got a different
revision of the playback than everyone else?
There is a device to open jars?
Damn!
Don't tell my wife!
But I can still take out the garbage, and put
the toilet paper rolls in the little springy
thing.
Thanks...
I am in the middle of debugging a problem
with some hardware, trying to track down a
lost 400ps of time. Been working on this for
the last 4 days...
The nine rules apply to software & hardware
systems IMHO.
Was pondering theories earlier yesterday...
should have been reporting symptoms!
I'd add one personal favorite.
Usually, if you blame the system or the compiler, or some other "Monolithic" entity
its because its your fault, it will just take you
longer to find it, after you dig out from under
your embarassment for blaming the "system".
So... I always assume I personally hosed up until I can prove otherwise. That way I'm plesantly surprised if its someone elses bug.
The Thor power tools case impacted companies depreication on inventories, and may be one reason why spare parts are not inventoried, and products have become throw away.
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RE: In the meantime, Virgin Galactic or whatever it is called is just a glorified thrill ride that does nothing to advance real commercial space flight.
Not so... the media and the public "believe" that it is commercial space flight... and if successful, business folk will say "there is money to be made in commercial space flight".
Where the money goes... advancement will likely follow IMHO.
So I believe that simply pushing the framework of "commercial space flight" as a business is a positive thing.
But like aviation.... it is said:
The only way to make a small fortune in aviation, start with a large one.
The capital equipment costs to buy IC testers that run up to 8Ghz is quite prohibitive. In this economy I don't think too many IC production facilities are willing to lay out the funds to buy equipment to test at this higher rate until they have cash flow coming in from the upturn. Until then the test coverage of IC's that run at 8Ghz is minimal and will require bench test methods and "guarantee" by design. This delay if not due to the capital equipment requirements of testing at 8Ghz, will allow suppliers to come up with methods to test the IC's using existing equipment, and gather statistical yield data in the meantime to support alternative testing methodologies.
I am not directly involved in any testing at these rates today, but you would have heard of large capitol purchases from any major supplier of IC's that run at these higher rates if a large capitol purchase was placed with any of the three or four major ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) suppliers. 8Ghz and the newer faster DDR3 speeds are all way outside the performance envelope of most automated test equipment for IC manufacturing today.
If you plot the clock speeds of major MPU's over the last 20 years, you will see that there is a correlation between the max speed of available automated test equipment at the time, and the input clock frequency to the device. PCI-E has created major issues for the IC testing industry due to the bandwidth of the protocol. This is causing a shift in how IC's that have these ports are tested in production.
Couple this with the robots that eat organic matter on the battle field... and the throwable robots.... will they learn to kill for food?
Skynet reports that the Governor of California will be releasing large numbers of flesh eating robots to do menial jobs at the California DMV. This will resolve the long lines and keep services moving along, as well as serve as an exercise program for state employees. When asked about this the Governor was quoted "Da Copper Tops, Ea, De Empoyees will be Modivated to wurk much hader now."
The sum of all pussy equals zero.
One of the astronauts on Endeavor has a hotmovies.com account.
Move Along...
Also, Banking revenue should increase significantly due to the $35 NSF fees and late fees these laid off workers will be paying as they discover their unemployment benefits don't quite stretch far enough.
Clearly this is a big "BUY" signal for banking stocks as this is going to be quite a windfall in fee collections this year.
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Looks like the chip that could render heaters obsolete, or at least in 3D.
... then they would be 99.9999999% efficient and cost less than crackers. Yes, but would they be individually wrapped?Sun : Very Hot, May cause personal injury.
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I used to work in the high tech industry with companies that made lots and lots of money. These companys had the fastest bandwidth, and the most creative people coming up with cool solutions to solve problems. But basicly the point was, everyone made lots of money, so if IT infastructure was a problem, they threw money at the problem, and it was solved...period. Since that time, I have seen general compression of the $$ side of things, the bright people go somewhere else, and the people outsource the smart clever IT folks that worked at the the tech company to some outsourcing firm...
and all the call centers are shipped off to India.
So... I think... where is all the money now, and clever people?
Google.
Just ask Google to host your IT applications, they already index the rest of the damn web anyway.
This would beat Googgle to their next big thing anyway... why not just host the world at Google?
Storing your sensitive financial information will be just a spec of content compared to the rest of the web. Then buy some good fiber connections from Verizon. (I'm spoiled with my FIOS service at home...better than the DSL at my companies remote office)... and viola, problem solved. Besides, then anyone can get to your data from anywhere.... the security issue is a myth... who has time to look up all this financial information anyway... most people are reading Dilbert cartoons about how your company outsourced the network.
Plus, you can tell all your clients to buy Google stock, prior to handing over all the data.
-- R
This housing problem is wonderful isn't it. Look at all the pretty colors. When is Star Trek going to be on? I get all my news from the Daily show.
I have been following photonics for the last 20 years, and today I came across something that seemed it needed to be slashdotted. "This development makes evident that Intel's anticipated Laser Processor is more than just a rumor."
http://ightfeet.com So are electrons obsolete yet? Guess we will have to see if this new cool optical server ships on time. My guess is that we will soon see the light;) -- R
It's been going on (with occasional Slashdot posts about it) since the late 90's.
Before that we did not exist, as the matrix had not finished updating the virus definitions as part of the boot process.
This is a good thing! Amazing what countries will do to boost immigration. The good news is, I won't need such a large cargo container to ship all my household goods now that my cellphone chargers don't need to come along. The bad news is... I don't OWN a GSM phone.
Hey, this is an interesting angle on the perspective of an MBA analyst.
When I think of possible MBA type vocabulary phrases, I think:
"Merger, Outsource, Offshore" (aka Moo )
Which involves:
"Redeployment, Adjustments, Layoffs, Headcount Reductions" (aka Ralph )
So with all the mooing and ralphing going on, actually focusing on building a tangible product seems to get lost in the shuffle.
I'm sure there are exceptions to this... but it's hard to see when the majority of the US is busy outsourcing.
I'm beginning to sound like a bitter Iron worker.
Wow, I guess I'll go check into Falcon.
So, I'm not sure I get the reference to Brad Pitt... I'll have to check with my girlfriend on that.. to get the female perspective.
The bright spot for me is the accessability of the work network when I'm remote via VPN RSA key type methods. This is one big plus. There are terrible downsides. At one point my company outsourced IT to a large company with a three letter acronym... lets call it "HAL". For most large companies this would be fine, but for a technology company like the one I work for it was a disaster. We are still only now recovering from that decision I believe, and have returned IT to local control. The largest issue I see is in the old days, engineering groups like the ones I worked in, did our own system administration, and we had large capitol budgets to purchase $12,000 per seat engineering Unix workstations. Recently we have had to wait in line to get a purchase approved for a $600 PC running Windoze. And then many of the IT service people have no idea of what we need. For example, I needed a RAID 0 (striped for speed) 2 disk machine setup for data crunching of very large files. This was delayed for weeks as no one knew how to image the drive. In the old days, they would have shipped me the CPU, and I would have configured it myself. Even today, if I have an IT issue, my call goes to some corporate "call center" very possibly in India, and a ticket id is assigned. My favorite was when I had forgotton my Unix login, I emailed IT to get my password reset. They called me back to ask me what my userID was. I was going to give them the UserID of the CEO as a joke... they had my EMAIL ID, but couldn't look up my user id? Hmmm... what has the world come to.
What is Voyager or Enterprise... were those
Trek Series?
My alleged mind recalls a 50's vintage science fiction movie, or Outer Limits where woman were able to reproduce without men, eliminating or converting male fetuses to female prior to birth.
Does anyone else recall this movie.. or was this somthing that was projected into my mind while I was sleeping on the slab, and I got a different revision of the playback than everyone else?
I should have taken the blue pill.
There is a device to open jars? Damn! Don't tell my wife! But I can still take out the garbage, and put the toilet paper rolls in the little springy thing.
Thanks... I am in the middle of debugging a problem with some hardware, trying to track down a lost 400ps of time. Been working on this for the last 4 days... The nine rules apply to software & hardware systems IMHO. Was pondering theories earlier yesterday... should have been reporting symptoms! I'd add one personal favorite. Usually, if you blame the system or the compiler, or some other "Monolithic" entity its because its your fault, it will just take you longer to find it, after you dig out from under your embarassment for blaming the "system". So... I always assume I personally hosed up until I can prove otherwise. That way I'm plesantly surprised if its someone elses bug.
The Thor power tools case impacted companies depreication on inventories, and may be one reason why spare parts are not inventoried, and products have become throw away.