If you read the MDDS of Intel CPUs, you will find that all Intel CPUs contain BFRs. Do those commitments about eliminating BFRs mean those company like DELL will stop using Intel CPU?
It's the story of my roommate's company. It's a small company related to NASA and NOAA. One of their employee's notebook got infected with some kind of spyware, and a hacker did something bad at NASA via that computer. Several days later, FBI came, interviewed every body in that company and other people like janitors, and confiscated several computers. Then the boss decided that they would be Mac and Linux only. And because the IT guy doesn't want to install Linux on brand new computers, they essentially only buy Macs since then.
People in India and mainland China are not allowed to enter green card lottery. I recommend you find a new layman, ah, sorry, lawyer. Countries can't participate in green card lottery include BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA mainland-born (Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan ARE eligible), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM and UK dependent territories (except Northern Ireland which WAS eligible), and VIETNAM.
Compared to what? The grid? Do I need to bring the grid with me when I am driving at places like Arizona? The dream of Ulf Bossel maybe viable in Switzerland, but definitely not US. If you like more of Ulf Bossel's papers, you can find them here.
This is the logo of a recent worm/virus widely spread in China. It infects.exe,.com,.pif,.src,.html,.asp,.jsp,.php..., if the infected html stuff appeared on the server, IE users who browse the web page also got infected, also it stopped the antivirus software and firewall, deleted backup and did other smart things. There were more than 1 million computers got infected in China since last October. Although the author of this virus left the name of the city he was living in the code, the police didn't caught him until February 12th 2007. The virus author tried to find a job in computer security area, but because he didn't even got a high school degree, nobody hired him. He released code to remove this virus after he got arrested. This is the story of the picture. If some people talk a lot about China but know nothing about this picture, I won't bother too much to read or listen. And I believe you can get your own idea from this story too.
There are two ways to make graphene I have known, one is to exfoliate graphite and the second one is to produce an oversaturated silicon carbide single crystal, and the graphene will grow epitaxially from the carbon layer on the surface of the silicon carbide crystal. None of these two can be "practical" IMHO. I also believe the researchers claim the new transistor is "practical" just to differentiate them from the old ones. Anyway I will read the real paper on Nature Materials and see what Novoselov's group has done this time.
Diamond as semiconductor has been studied for some time. There are some progress recently. But it is not easy to make big single crystal diamond yet, not to mention single crystal diamond wafer. Just imagine how difficult it could be to polish the diamond wafer without introducing many defects, and how hard could it be to characterize how many defects you get in the wafer.
This is what I've come up with after a long period of editing Chinese Wikipedia.
Endless arguments on Talk pages. Apparently more work on Talk pages than actual pages.
If I say something bad about current president of Taiwan, my account my be banned. And if I say something bad about the opponent of the current president of Taiwan, my account may also be banned.
Reverts may undo useful changes. There are no merge-based undos, no simple application of a diff between two revisions.
Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese can not be mixed in use of "Category".
Publishing articles in peer-reviewed venues is more important, although less visible.
Lack of a good, canonical, reference and citation system like BibTeX.
Sensational, controversial topics end up better written than unpopular topics. Many entries on history worlds. Everyday there will be something new about sex intercourse.
My work might get deleted altogether, and replaced by a total copy of English wikipedia article with a "translation request".
Contributors easily get angry about the pronunciation of tomato and difference between wrench and spanner.
Dark side of many topics are not allowed to write in Chinese wikipedia. You need to read English version for that part.
If I contribute something better than the English version or doesn't exist in English wikipedia, it may be labeled "quick delete" for potential violation of GFDL.
It is too hard to communicate with contributors from Taiwan, if I call a guy Taiwanese, he/she may say "I am a citizen of Republic of China." If I ask them "Are you a citizen of ROC?" There are 50% chance get an answer of "Taiwan is not ROC!":-*
Too many topics are protected.
If I'm an IP address, nobody cares. If I use my real name, I have to be careful what I write. If I use a pseudonym and hide my identity, it carries less weight.
People in mainland China can not read Chinese wikipedia, that means most Chinese speaking people can NOT read what I wrote, then why I wrote it?
Subtle information about mainland China may be deleted by IPs, like sister cities of Washington DC, you get tired of this after some time.
Neutral point of view doesn't exist in the 5000 years of history of Chinese culture, I mean Chinese culture, no matter where you are. The winners win it all.
Most people editing don't have any formal training in writing beyond elementary school. Most articles and topics need work.
Vandalism, and pseudo-vandalism, without being noticed for months.
Almost every other leisure activity I can think of is more rewarding.
2 reasons to use Chinese Wikipedia
It's generally better than a Google search.
Most articles have links to their counterparts in English, which are more useful in most cases.
2 reasons to edit Wikipedia
It's a great place to practice your translation skills.
Most anything you write here appears near the top of a Google search.
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We still have some other ammunition for the flame retardant applications. Aluminum hydroxide, Magnesium hydroxide, Phosphorus based stuff, intumescent stuff, nanoclay stuff, melamine crystals... It maybe a painful for industrial players, they have to figure out a way, but it's going to be OK for consumers.
I checked the weather channel several minutes ago, snow tomorrow, so I think October maybe at the end of the spring.
A transparent yellow one will be nice too.
China just passed the property law. I think this is a big step.
Apparently. But most people simply couldn't see it.
Far less than new, improved, better than ever before CPUs.
If you read the MDDS of Intel CPUs, you will find that all Intel CPUs contain BFRs. Do those commitments about eliminating BFRs mean those company like DELL will stop using Intel CPU?
Which one?
It's the story of my roommate's company. It's a small company related to NASA and NOAA. One of their employee's notebook got infected with some kind of spyware, and a hacker did something bad at NASA via that computer. Several days later, FBI came, interviewed every body in that company and other people like janitors, and confiscated several computers. Then the boss decided that they would be Mac and Linux only. And because the IT guy doesn't want to install Linux on brand new computers, they essentially only buy Macs since then.
People in India and mainland China are not allowed to enter green card lottery. I recommend you find a new layman, ah, sorry, lawyer. Countries can't participate in green card lottery include BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA mainland-born (Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan ARE eligible), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM and UK dependent territories (except Northern Ireland which WAS eligible), and VIETNAM.
Compared to what? The grid? Do I need to bring the grid with me when I am driving at places like Arizona? The dream of Ulf Bossel maybe viable in Switzerland, but definitely not US. If you like more of Ulf Bossel's papers, you can find them here.
There is a job opening at NSA.
Do they fire their best performers from cannons?
This is the logo of a recent worm/virus widely spread in China. It infects .exe, .com, .pif, .src, .html, .asp, .jsp, .php..., if the infected html stuff appeared on the server, IE users who browse the web page also got infected, also it stopped the antivirus software and firewall, deleted backup and did other smart things. There were more than 1 million computers got infected in China since last October. Although the author of this virus left the name of the city he was living in the code, the police didn't caught him until February 12th 2007. The virus author tried to find a job in computer security area, but because he didn't even got a high school degree, nobody hired him. He released code to remove this virus after he got arrested. This is the story of the picture. If some people talk a lot about China but know nothing about this picture, I won't bother too much to read or listen. And I believe you can get your own idea from this story too.
If you don't know what is this, you know nothing about the online world of China.
How about coating for optical fiber?
Xerox, as usual.
There are two ways to make graphene I have known, one is to exfoliate graphite and the second one is to produce an oversaturated silicon carbide single crystal, and the graphene will grow epitaxially from the carbon layer on the surface of the silicon carbide crystal. None of these two can be "practical" IMHO. I also believe the researchers claim the new transistor is "practical" just to differentiate them from the old ones. Anyway I will read the real paper on Nature Materials and see what Novoselov's group has done this time.
Don't you know what those young kids in China do online or you are simply afraid to see what you see? P0rn and WoW.
The programmer, the code reviewer/tester, the manager or the guy who invented international dateline?
This model is double walled nanotube only, any body know any method to grow specifically double walled carbon nanotubes?
Diamond as semiconductor has been studied for some time. There are some progress recently. But it is not easy to make big single crystal diamond yet, not to mention single crystal diamond wafer. Just imagine how difficult it could be to polish the diamond wafer without introducing many defects, and how hard could it be to characterize how many defects you get in the wafer.
20 Reasons not to edit Chinese Wikipedia
This is what I've come up with after a long period of editing Chinese Wikipedia.
- Endless arguments on Talk pages. Apparently more work on Talk pages than actual pages.
- If I say something bad about current president of Taiwan, my account my be banned. And if I say something bad about the opponent of the current president of Taiwan, my account may also be banned.
- Reverts may undo useful changes. There are no merge-based undos, no simple application of a diff between two revisions.
- Traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese can not be mixed in use of "Category".
- Publishing articles in peer-reviewed venues is more important, although less visible.
- Lack of a good, canonical, reference and citation system like BibTeX.
- Sensational, controversial topics end up better written than unpopular topics. Many entries on history worlds. Everyday there will be something new about sex intercourse.
- My work might get deleted altogether, and replaced by a total copy of English wikipedia article with a "translation request".
- Contributors easily get angry about the pronunciation of tomato and difference between wrench and spanner.
- Dark side of many topics are not allowed to write in Chinese wikipedia. You need to read English version for that part.
- If I contribute something better than the English version or doesn't exist in English wikipedia, it may be labeled "quick delete" for potential violation of GFDL.
- It is too hard to communicate with contributors from Taiwan, if I call a guy Taiwanese, he/she may say "I am a citizen of Republic of China." If I ask them "Are you a citizen of ROC?" There are 50% chance get an answer of "Taiwan is not ROC!"
:-*
- Too many topics are protected.
- If I'm an IP address, nobody cares. If I use my real name, I have to be careful what I write. If I use a pseudonym and hide my identity, it carries less weight.
- People in mainland China can not read Chinese wikipedia, that means most Chinese speaking people can NOT read what I wrote, then why I wrote it?
- Subtle information about mainland China may be deleted by IPs, like sister cities of Washington DC, you get tired of this after some time.
- Neutral point of view doesn't exist in the 5000 years of history of Chinese culture, I mean Chinese culture, no matter where you are. The winners win it all.
- Most people editing don't have any formal training in writing beyond elementary school. Most articles and topics need work.
- Vandalism, and pseudo-vandalism, without being noticed for months.
- Almost every other leisure activity I can think of is more rewarding.
2 reasons to use Chinese Wikipedia- It's generally better than a Google search.
- Most articles have links to their counterparts in English, which are more useful in most cases.
2 reasons to edit WikipediaSo it doesn't need to be so bad after all.
But if I upgrade the case, my eyes hurt...