I also have a problem with the Great Lumping Together of Internet Users. People use it for widely different purposes. And how it affects society? I think it mostly wastes a lot of our time which we could be using to better purposes. Don't get me wrong, I find a lot of information really fast on it, but did anyone ever think that having a copy of the Yellow Pages would "Change Society?"
Therefore, to raise the number of employees, those of us who are still working (those who aren't goofing off already!) should slow down, take longer breaks, go home ON TIME, etc, and then more employees will be required, after the productivity gets really low, n'est-ce pas?
'Wrap the CPU up in a package' Problem: (And in a large sense the major concept that most of the postings to the origin had lost sight of, that ALL SEMICONDUCTORS HAVE TO BE PACKAGED! And that packaging has to be cost-effective, relaible ad infinitum. IO density is just as much a limiting factor in the package, and we have our magic wands, of course, THEY'RE CALLED PROCESS ENGINEERS! All the wiseacre ideas don't ususally make it too production.
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I have an enginner title but my degree is in Physics. I actually get my hands dirty plugging away everday making the packages that these "half-million transistors' ABSOULTELY have to have to be able to be useful. It's not just the fab processes that bring these marvels to to become the tools that all those pseudo-engineers in their little boxes have their flights of transcendent fantasy about the real real world. We who slave away at testing the reliability and manufacturablility of extremely dense IO structures don't worry about losing anything 'real'; we live it every day. In my early career there were the mechanical guys and the electrical guys (insert proper gender neutral terms, if you so choose). Now there's the third world so-called 'software engineers'. Bleaugh! Just tweekers of the latest rage applet juggling patterns and sucking off the teat of industry like a swarm of parasitic trend-followers.
"Though my view is as spacious as the sky, my actions and respect for cause and effect are as fine as grains of flour" - Padmasambhava
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I also have a problem with the Great Lumping Together of Internet Users. People use it for widely different purposes. And how it affects society? I think it mostly wastes a lot of our time which we could be using to better purposes. Don't get me wrong, I find a lot of information really fast on it, but did anyone ever think that having a copy of the Yellow Pages would "Change Society?"
Therefore, to raise the number of employees, those of us who are still working (those who aren't goofing off already!) should slow down, take longer breaks, go home ON TIME, etc, and then more employees will be required, after the productivity gets really low, n'est-ce pas?
'Wrap the CPU up in a package' Problem: (And in a large sense the major concept that most of the postings to the origin had lost sight of, that ALL SEMICONDUCTORS HAVE TO BE PACKAGED! And that packaging has to be cost-effective, relaible ad infinitum. IO density is just as much a limiting factor in the package, and we have our magic wands, of course, THEY'RE CALLED PROCESS ENGINEERS! All the wiseacre ideas don't ususally make it too production.
I have an enginner title but my degree is in Physics. I actually get my hands dirty plugging away everday making the packages that these "half-million transistors' ABSOULTELY have to have to be able to be useful. It's not just the fab processes that bring these marvels to to become the tools that all those pseudo-engineers in their little boxes have their flights of transcendent fantasy about the real real world. We who slave away at testing the reliability and manufacturablility of extremely dense IO structures don't worry about losing anything 'real'; we live it every day. In my early career there were the mechanical guys and the electrical guys (insert proper gender neutral terms, if you so choose). Now there's the third world so-called 'software engineers'. Bleaugh! Just tweekers of the latest rage applet juggling patterns and sucking off the teat of industry like a swarm of parasitic trend-followers. "Though my view is as spacious as the sky, my actions and respect for cause and effect are as fine as grains of flour" - Padmasambhava