When you try to open the link to the patent, you'll get refused. Do the open by copy/paste, so you're not referred by/.. For me, I simply highlighted the URL in the addressbar and hit enter.
uuh... yes, and the rear axle of the truck was found, intact, many blocks away. I think the axle shafts were broken off (along with the wheels), but the actual axle casting (a casting, not even a forging, mind you), was completely intact. That's a lot thinner steel than the casks in question. I'd say they could rebuild McVeigh's truckbomb, park it right on top of the cask (lean it against the cask, set the cask on top, whatever), and it wouldn't leak. Make a good shaped charge, hit the cask lengthwise with perfect placement, and you could probably make a good dirty bomb, but if you can get in position for a placement like that, you probably already have undisputed posession of the cask, so you can just unscrew the lid.
Unfortunately, neither elgooGoogle nor archive.org had a chance to cache it before we killed it. The "former boss" was probably an update, made after he slashdotted the poor guy.
Do the article submitters ever read anything posted by anyone else? From 23 hours, 9 minutes before this story, Timothy posted the same story. That doesn't make the story any less creepy, but alongwith RTFA, maybe wee need to add RTFS(ite).
Re:Timothy, DO NOT REPOST SAME ARTICLES
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I thought it was here, less than a week ago, that I learned about
this. Oh, well... it's better to post on the duplicate, since it's newer and will be read more.
This process isn't nearly as revolutionary nor as useful as the authors imply, though. I'm not saying it's been done before, but there's really no reason to do so. What they accomplished was to make a regular array of dots. Very small, true, but dots, nonetheless. The shapes made on a die are usually more complex than simple dots... Maybe this process could be useful in creating vias(connections between layers - notoriously difficult to get good connection). I doubt the durability of a little blade of silicon, stamping a "wire" over and over into the resist. A set of masks for a relatively simple chip at.18 microns costs about 600,000USD to make. The lithography is extremely precise and difficult to get perfect, even if if you use optically reduced masks (make the mask bigger than the die, and project it smaller). Now, imagine making precisely-shaped silicon dies to stamp with. The tops of the stamps must be precisely level, or else you will get spots where you don't stamp all the way through the resist... bad chip. Unlike an optical mask, these things are subject to wear (yes, i know that even an optical mask can be degraded, but on a much longer time scale). I assume these stamps will be produced with photolithography, and i can't imagine the yield at that step would be very good. This process is 18 times finer than.18 microns. It's going to cost more to make these stamps, and they'll wear out fast. Maybe with some major advances in photolithography for the production of the stamps, it will work, but then again, what will those advances do for direct production? I'd expect that the only useful thing to come of this will be to use it for some steps in production, where it's appropriate for the step, for the reduction of hazardous waste.
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morse code is the only digital language your brain is able to process You're right, at least about me, but the statement is not generally true. There are other digital modes people can understand, but they're not widely used (think the patterns of bells used by old-time fire stations to transmit addresses). There's no reason why somebody couldn't create their own set of sound timing patterns to represent letters. The continental Morse code (plain Morse code is a lot harder - has 4 elements, rarely used) is just the most common one, by like a billion-to-one. And you're right about telemetry. It's pretty common for repeaters, for instance, to report their health by code... most common being adding "EP" after the callsign to indicate that it is running on emergency power.
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While I certainly don't mind contesting. It's great for building skills, it sure doesn't sound like much fun to me.
"You're 5-9. Please repeat your call, signal is very weak and distorted".
I remember when I first started as a novice, I thought 10-10 sounded like possible fun. I wanted to get started, so tried to accumulate 10-10 numbers when I heard a 10-10 contest was going on. The people I'd hear calling "CQ 10-10" rudely ended the QSOs when I informed them that I didn't have a number yet. It took only 3 of those in a row to form my opinion of contesting for its own sake.
That said - I intend to be active from the backcountry in Rocky Mountain National Park and/or Roosevelt National Forest. Probably the latter, as it's easier to plug the FT-817 into the Jeep than it is to carry batteries. I'll be SSB, CW, FM... Maybe some AM, where proper, anywhere between 1.8 to 440 MHz.
Re:Further OT: A quicker & dirtier transmitter
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5 by 5 is long for 55, from the RST signal reporting system for cw (Readability, Strength, Tone), shortened to RS for just the readability and strength when reporting voice. Since his test was morse code, but completely without tone (probably pretty close to pink noise), he left off the tone.
We review Stranger in a Strange Land, followed by The Book of Kells, then the Res Gestae, then The Rosetta Stone.... Come on! This book bored me to near-death 21 years ago. It was a long grinding-down of the soul, like Catcher in the Rye. I appreciate the effort of the review, and all, but by now, anybody likely to be on/.(literate, intelligent, older than 12 years) should have already been exposed to it.
You have a point on density, but think longevity and durability. Let's drop a box of ide drives and a box of cds. Then let's dunk them in a lake. 20 years later, which one do you think will read? I'll admit, I'd be more certain of the drives than of any magtape, but the optical media will have a much better survival rate than either. I love having critical archives encoded as holes in metal embedded in plastic. This new 27Gb format for standard-size disks (On rereading the article, I realize I was smoking crack talking about this trashing the DataPlay on capacity and on the distribution of programs on them) is, I think, going to be the new standard for archiving. I'm going to suggest to my bosses that we hold off on the dvd burners and use the home-grown product (yes, I work for Philips).
Yeah. I just got to mess with the DataPlay one yesterday down at the brewery. It's nice and all, and the format allows repeated appends. I was pretty impressed (yesterday, before I find out today that my own company is about to stomp them), but:
It's only 500MB(Or was that 1GB... small change anyway)
They're shooting for $10USD, and longterm plans no lower that 8
If they were WAY first to market, they could get some sales from early adopters and those whe have to have the "coolest" stuff, but with vastly superior product from the big guys just around the corner, I'm afraid they're going to lose their shirts on this one. Too bad they couldn't have gotten it out back when they planned to.
Q. Did you ever say, as has been widely circulated on the Internet, "640K [of RAM] ought to be enough for anybody?"
No! That makes me so mad I can't believe it! Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement-I said the opposite of that. Looks like your link mentions another of his denials, too, but you should have mentioned the apocryphality (is that a word?) of the quote.
I think it was an unfortunate choice of a name for a ficticious country, especially since it sounds vaguely similar to the name of the country from which we used to get most of our viruses - Bulgaria. OR, do you mean that you have factual knowledge of this, and know that in fact, the antivirus companies are hiring virus writers, and that they are all in Bulgaria? If so, let me assure you that that was not what the poster meant, and no one would first suggest bulgaria as the source. The reason we used to get viruses from there was that it was full of intelligent, well-educated people with nothing to do because of a stupid socialist government. Now that they're free, they don't have the time to waste on stupid, destructive acts. They're productive programmers. Also -/. "US-centric"? I don't know about you, but I get the impression that Americans are barely a majority here. I hear all kinds of perspectives, and find out things that aren't going to be general news in my area for months, if ever. Too bad we all don't have the courage to use something as personally identifiable as an amateur radio callsign. We could do a quick tally of who's from where right off the user list.
All things being equal, that's a sensible suggestion. Unfortunately, the well-said comments of others about what happens after the counteroffer are nearly universal. If you really KNOW you will not have the near-leaving held against you, it might work to stay. You've got to ask your self, though - "Why wasn't I worth this much to them 6 minutes ago?". I know, they must try to hold down costs, and only an idiot pays more than he needs to. However, their judgement is suspect if you are paid enough below what they value you that you are willing to leave for the differential. Once you realize that's going on, you know that there's more wrong. I rode Moore's law applied to salary starting at slave wages from fall 1995 until summer 2000. When I saw a the company wasn't sound, I started looking. Now, I'm paid a healthy percentage of the value I generate, on the average (some weeks, I'm not worth much, other weeks, I make up for it), and the only way to get me out of this job is to offer me a position as an astronaut.
I've never seen anybody last more than a couple months after accepting a retention counteroffer. I HAVE seen people carefully use counteroffers to get a better departure offer, but that can be a dangerous game. - - The way to get a counteroffer-like raise is to inexplicably come to work overdressed and take a full-length lunch, without explaining. If you would get a counteroffer on starting to leave, you're likely to get most of it by gentle suggestion. DO NOT go asking for a counteroffer to prevent your looking.
I've had this since last August, in the form of an eyemodule. Costs only $50. Only 320x240, with no internal storage, but it's trivial to always have a camera with me. I just wish i could get the pictures out of it at full quality instead of the software doing jpeg conversion.
Since my IBM WorkPad 20x (rebranded PalmIII) finally died a year ago May 10, I'm on my third Handspring Visor - 1 Visor Deluxe lost/stolen, 1 skewered by an old lady's trekking pole (don't ask), and now a Visor Platinum. First one was bought new in a store the afternoon the WorkPad died. The next two bought off the Handspring website, refurbished. All three have held better calibration than the original 3Com machine. I think I paid like 180 USD for the first one, $119 for the second(refurb), and with the third, I paid the extra 20 (99>119) to go the platinum. All three 16Mb, the platinum has a faster processor and runs palmos 3.5. The springboard is nice. I wish it had become a standard, or at least that Handspring had enough marketshare to continue to support it. I can live with the lack of flash (no fundamental OS upgrades). Main thing is that it's a full-boat PalmOS PDA with 16MB that you can get for the same price you paid for you 1MB (maybe 2MB - see thread) 3com.
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When you try to open the link to the patent, you'll get refused. Do the open by copy/paste, so you're not referred by /.. For me, I simply highlighted the URL in the addressbar and hit enter.
explosion and/or fire? That's kind of scary
"Half of the standard problems" - in design - prevention. Not having half of your rockets explode or burn.
uuh... yes, and the rear axle of the truck was found, intact, many blocks away. I think the axle shafts were broken off (along with the wheels), but the actual axle casting (a casting, not even a forging, mind you), was completely intact. That's a lot thinner steel than the casks in question.
I'd say they could rebuild McVeigh's truckbomb, park it right on top of the cask (lean it against the cask, set the cask on top, whatever), and it wouldn't leak. Make a good shaped charge, hit the cask lengthwise with perfect placement, and you could probably make a good dirty bomb, but if you can get in position for a placement like that, you probably already have undisputed posession of the cask, so you can just unscrew the lid.
Sure, it's awesome, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
Do the article submitters ever read anything posted by anyone else? From 23 hours, 9 minutes before this story, Timothy posted the same story.
That doesn't make the story any less creepy, but alongwith RTFA, maybe wee need to add RTFS(ite).
I thought it was here, less than a week ago, that I learned about this.
.18 microns costs about 600,000USD to make. The lithography is extremely precise and difficult to get perfect, even if if you use optically reduced masks (make the mask bigger than the die, and project it smaller). Now, imagine making precisely-shaped silicon dies to stamp with. The tops of the stamps must be precisely level, or else you will get spots where you don't stamp all the way through the resist... bad chip. Unlike an optical mask, these things are subject to wear (yes, i know that even an optical mask can be degraded, but on a much longer time scale). I assume these stamps will be produced with photolithography, and i can't imagine the yield at that step would be very good. .18 microns. It's going to cost more to make these stamps, and they'll wear out fast. Maybe with some major advances in photolithography for the production of the stamps, it will work, but then again, what will those advances do for direct production? I'd expect that the only useful thing to come of this will be to use it for some steps in production, where it's appropriate for the step, for the reduction of hazardous waste.
Oh, well... it's better to post on the duplicate, since it's newer and will be read more.
This process isn't nearly as revolutionary nor as useful as the authors imply, though. I'm not saying it's been done before, but there's really no reason to do so. What they accomplished was to make a regular array of dots. Very small, true, but dots, nonetheless. The shapes made on a die are usually more complex than simple dots... Maybe this process could be useful in creating vias(connections between layers - notoriously difficult to get good connection). I doubt the durability of a little blade of silicon, stamping a "wire" over and over into the resist. A set of masks for a relatively simple chip at
This process is 18 times finer than
morse code is the only digital language your brain is able to process
You're right, at least about me, but the statement is not generally true. There are other digital modes people can understand, but they're not widely used (think the patterns of bells used by old-time fire stations to transmit addresses). There's no reason why somebody couldn't create their own set of sound timing patterns to represent letters. The continental Morse code (plain Morse code is a lot harder - has 4 elements, rarely used) is just the most common one, by like a billion-to-one.
And you're right about telemetry. It's pretty common for repeaters, for instance, to report their health by code... most common being adding "EP" after the callsign to indicate that it is running on emergency power.
"You're 5-9. Please repeat your call, signal is very weak and distorted".
I remember when I first started as a novice, I thought 10-10 sounded like possible fun. I wanted to get started, so tried to accumulate 10-10 numbers when I heard a 10-10 contest was going on. The people I'd hear calling "CQ 10-10" rudely ended the QSOs when I informed them that I didn't have a number yet. It took only 3 of those in a row to form my opinion of contesting for its own sake.That said - I intend to be active from the backcountry in Rocky Mountain National Park and/or Roosevelt National Forest. Probably the latter, as it's easier to plug the FT-817 into the Jeep than it is to carry batteries. I'll be SSB, CW, FM... Maybe some AM, where proper, anywhere between 1.8 to 440 MHz.
5 by 5 is long for 55, from the RST signal reporting system for cw (Readability, Strength, Tone), shortened to RS for just the readability and strength when reporting voice. Since his test was morse code, but completely without tone (probably pretty close to pink noise), he left off the tone.
We review Stranger in a Strange Land, followed by The Book of Kells, then the Res Gestae, then The Rosetta Stone.... Come on! This book bored me to near-death 21 years ago. It was a long grinding-down of the soul, like Catcher in the Rye. /.(literate, intelligent, older than 12 years) should have already been exposed to it.
I appreciate the effort of the review, and all, but by now, anybody likely to be on
"how will you plug in the headphones"
Headphones, hell!... We've already discussed this.
You have a point on density, but think longevity and durability. Let's drop a box of ide drives and a box of cds. Then let's dunk them in a lake. 20 years later, which one do you think will read? I'll admit, I'd be more certain of the drives than of any magtape, but the optical media will have a much better survival rate than either.
I love having critical archives encoded as holes in metal embedded in plastic. This new 27Gb format for standard-size disks (On rereading the article, I realize I was smoking crack talking about this trashing the DataPlay on capacity and on the distribution of programs on them) is, I think, going to be the new standard for archiving.
I'm going to suggest to my bosses that we hold off on the dvd burners and use the home-grown product (yes, I work for Philips).
comes on 3 or 4 coin sized CDs
81-108Gb of install media?
Oh, you must mean Office XP 2004 + service packs.
Okay. How did that happen? Looks like "Preview" did a "Submit" as well. I probably fatfingered (fatmoused?) it.
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It's only 500MB(Or was that 1GB... small change anyway)
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They're shooting for $10USD, and longterm plans no lower that 8
If they were WAY first to market, they could get some sales from early adopters and those whe have to have the "coolest" stuff, but with vastly superior product from the big guys just around the corner, I'm afraid they're going to lose their shirts on this one. Too bad they couldn't have gotten it out back when they planned to.But a shoe-phone would be funnier.
Almost enought to make me pay for tvland.
Q. Did you ever say, as has been widely circulated on the Internet, "640K [of RAM] ought to be enough for anybody?"
No! That makes me so mad I can't believe it! Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement-I said the opposite of that.
Looks like your link mentions another of his denials, too, but you should have mentioned the apocryphality (is that a word?) of the quote.
I think it was an unfortunate choice of a name for a ficticious country, especially since it sounds vaguely similar to the name of the country from which we used to get most of our viruses - Bulgaria. /. "US-centric"? I don't know about you, but I get the impression that Americans are barely a majority here. I hear all kinds of perspectives, and find out things that aren't going to be general news in my area for months, if ever. Too bad we all don't have the courage to use something as personally identifiable as an amateur radio callsign. We could do a quick tally of who's from where right off the user list.
OR, do you mean that you have factual knowledge of this, and know that in fact, the antivirus companies are hiring virus writers, and that they are all in Bulgaria? If so, let me assure you that that was not what the poster meant, and no one would first suggest bulgaria as the source. The reason we used to get viruses from there was that it was full of intelligent, well-educated people with nothing to do because of a stupid socialist government. Now that they're free, they don't have the time to waste on stupid, destructive acts. They're productive programmers.
Also -
If you like where you're at stay. If not leave.
All things being equal, that's a sensible suggestion. Unfortunately, the well-said comments of others about what happens after the counteroffer are nearly universal. If you really KNOW you will not have the near-leaving held against you, it might work to stay. You've got to ask your self, though - "Why wasn't I worth this much to them 6 minutes ago?". I know, they must try to hold down costs, and only an idiot pays more than he needs to. However, their judgement is suspect if you are paid enough below what they value you that you are willing to leave for the differential.
Once you realize that's going on, you know that there's more wrong. I rode Moore's law applied to salary starting at slave wages from fall 1995 until summer 2000. When I saw a the company wasn't sound, I started looking. Now, I'm paid a healthy percentage of the value I generate, on the average (some weeks, I'm not worth much, other weeks, I make up for it), and the only way to get me out of this job is to offer me a position as an astronaut.
I've never seen anybody last more than a couple months after accepting a retention counteroffer. I HAVE seen people carefully use counteroffers to get a better departure offer, but that can be a dangerous game. - - The way to get a counteroffer-like raise is to inexplicably come to work overdressed and take a full-length lunch, without explaining. If you would get a counteroffer on starting to leave, you're likely to get most of it by gentle suggestion. DO NOT go asking for a counteroffer to prevent your looking.
I've had this since last August, in the form of an eyemodule. Costs only $50. Only 320x240, with no internal storage, but it's trivial to always have a camera with me. I just wish i could get the pictures out of it at full quality instead of the software doing jpeg conversion.
I should mention that you rule. That was the answer.
Shouldn't that read (Score:2, Funny).
Since my IBM WorkPad 20x (rebranded PalmIII) finally died a year ago May 10, I'm on my third Handspring Visor - 1 Visor Deluxe lost/stolen, 1 skewered by an old lady's trekking pole (don't ask), and now a Visor Platinum. First one was bought new in a store the afternoon the WorkPad died. The next two bought off the Handspring website, refurbished. All three have held better calibration than the original 3Com machine. I think I paid like 180 USD for the first one, $119 for the second(refurb), and with the third, I paid the extra 20 (99>119) to go the platinum. All three 16Mb, the platinum has a faster processor and runs palmos 3.5.
The springboard is nice. I wish it had become a standard, or at least that Handspring had enough marketshare to continue to support it. I can live with the lack of flash (no fundamental OS upgrades). Main thing is that it's a full-boat PalmOS PDA with 16MB that you can get for the same price you paid for you 1MB (maybe 2MB - see thread) 3com.