Wrong again. At the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference held in Feb'07, IBM announced their plans all the way to 22nm. AMD, Freescale, Sony and Toshiba all have development deals for 32nm and 22nm. The Common Platform partners (Charted, Samsung, Infineon) are currently signed up for 45nm and 32nm. IBM is slated for 45nm volume manufacturing in 4Q07. Check your facts before posting blatantly wrong information.
Ummm... what about IBM? Currently Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, Freescale, AMD, Infineon and Samsung all pay IBM money to do the R&D needed for advanced CMOS processing. The net result is that roughly 75% of the world's chips are produced with IBM technology.
I'm definitely not a creationist, but don't think for a minute that psuedo- and anti-science is limited to religious zealots.
Look at all the things that people buy into today, particularly in Europe, such as homeopathy, reflexology, chiropractics, magnet therapy, colonics, yadda yadda. How many people believe that irradiated strawberries are radioactive? How many people sit around worrying about the "toxins" in the body? How many people belive that Feng Shui increases the positive "energy" in a room?
In other words, DENIED! Sorry, man, we've all been there.
My thoughts exactly.
As a woman, the initial feeling I got from the story is that this guy somehow persuaded this girl (who's level of friendship is probably not reciprocal) to use Ubuntu instead of Windows. That gives him an opportunity to continue the (somewhat desperate) interaction past the point of sale. A hint to geeks out there: Girls get scared when you start going out of your way to be "friendly" or "nice". Guys think the girl will be swept off her feet; girls think the guys are sacrificing their own time (and happiness) just to make them happy.
Anyone noticing a strong similarity between this article and about 95% of the stuff posted on digg every day? What's next, "The Top 10 Photoshop Filters of All Time?":) Tagged slashdigg.
It takes 36% more dollars to equal one Euro. The Franc doesn't exist any more. Your math abilities and world knowledge should seriously concern people.
It's actually about 2/3 the speed of light (depending on the dielectric constant). The TFA might be referring to the drift velocity of electrons in the wire (on the order of a centimeter/s), which is not a particulary useful comparison.
I had a great experience with CallVantage for about 6-months. I actually forgot that we had VoIP most of the time. But then Charter, who handled the cable interet connection, did something and my connection became slow and unreliable. I ended up ditching the cable and going with DSL. I see no reason to pay $30/mo for VoIP when I already have phone service (it comes with the DSL), so I'm looking at Skype now for long distance calls.
Keep in mind that Power chips are used in high end servers, not commodity PCs. Given the expense of these servers, it's likely that the "OFMG 5GHZ!!!!111" reaction that typifies that commodity PC fanboy market does not apply. I doubt that IBM is sacrificing performance just to market 5GHz speeds (like Intel did with NetBurst).
One example is Claritin vs. Clarinex. (Both are anti-histamines that don't cause drowsiness in most people). Claritin was a cash cow for Schering-Plough whose patent expired a few years ago. It used to be prescription-only and the cost used was around $1 a pill. Now you can buy 300-ct bottles over-the-counter at CostCo for ~ $10.00.
Enter Clarinex, which Schering claims is certified for both indoor and outdoor allergies. Once again, it's a prescription-only medication with high prices. The punch line: Clarinex is exactly the same drug as Claritin after Claritin passes through your liver once. There are tons of examples like this, where drug companies change the chemical formulation only slightly, usually in inactive places of the molecule (i.e. the "business end" that interacts with the target enzymes is unchanged). Why new formulations like this are granted patents is beyond me.
True, but let's hope this process doesn't require the expensive purification steps that are required to make proteins suitable for human injection. The process might even be able to run with the enzyme-producing bacteria living directly in the water that they are decomposing, with added nutrients of course. Ideally the system could be run ad infinitum as a steady state bioreactor, although this might be difficult to achieve in practice.
As someone who on more than one occassion has accidentally lefts a couple of tens instead of a couple of ones for a tip at a bar, I certainly would welcome anything which allows me to discern bills more clearly when I have trouble focusing.
"You really need to see a demo of the system playing the latest games, in 3D, with a pair of standard 3D glasses (similar to those handed out at IMAX or Real D cinemas)"
Those IMAX glasses are designed to work with polarized 3D sources. The lenses are designed to only let one orientation of polarized light in, call it 0 or 90 degrees. One lens is rotated 90 degrees to the other, so each eye sees a separate polarization. Two projectors are used, each projecting different polarizations.
So basically, this company has apparently figured out to get your existing monitor or TV to magically display two orientations of polarized light, simultaneously! And the best part is, they are modifying the graphics card, not the display, to do it!
This whole article smells like an elaborate troll.
If the dems go apeshit with impeachment and investigations, they can pretty much give up all hope on 2008. Sure the DailyKOS folks will rally behind them, but most of the electorate will find all the proceedings to be tedious and revengeful. Witness the decline in Republican confidence after the Clinton impeachment fiasco. Impeachement would take at least a year; Bush is out in two. Wait it out.
"[legal] immigrants will be arrested if they come to the polls"
Ummm... unless those immigrants are U.S. citizens they aren't allowed to vote. They probably won't be arrested, but they shouldn't be there anyway, legal or illegal.
Am I the only one here who gets her news from newspapers, ala The New York Times and The Wallstreet Journal? One of the most enjoyable parts of my day is sipping coffee in the morning while reading the newspapers. I can't stand any evening television broadcast of the news, Daily Show or otherwise.
Have you ever read transcripts of the television news casts? Each story is usually a paragraph of text at most, whereas the reporting on the same subject in a newspaper will usually be several columns.
It saddens me that today's youth brags about getting all their news from the daily show while newspaper circulation is in rapid decline.
I love the people who always get into a hissy fit about the US of A being called America.
As another poster stated, there is no continent named America. Furthermore, the common understanding around the world is that "America" refers to the United States. People who bitch about it are just begging for attention, in a pedantic sort of way: Look at me!! I'm so smart and you're all so stupid! It's the USA, not America!!
Duly noted, fuckheads. Now go form an opinion that actually matters.
Corning sells very few things in the public sector. They do have a serious business in fiber optics, so you can start boycotting any telco or cable company who uses their products. Also, they make photomask blanks for semiconductor (chip-making) companies, so you can boycott IBM, Intel, AMD, Samsung, etc.
Sorry, but you're wrong. It's about enabling the telcos to provide ipTV in competition with the cable companies, without having to get permission from every single local government. FWIW, ipTV is not the same as Apple iTV.
I'm not a big fan of local governement-sanctioned cable monopolies, seeing how the price of cable is inflating faster than anyhing else.
Currently, cable companies are government sanctioned monopolies whose charter to provide cable service is voted on by the local (municipal) government.
Thus, for telcos to come in and over TV service to a given municipality's residents requires them to go to each individual town and expand the charter. Since there are 10s of thousands of small towns across America, a prospect such as this becomes virtually impossible, even to someone like Verizon.
The proposed bill would eliminate the above restrictions and allow direct competition between the cable companies and telcos to provide TV service.
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Wrong again. At the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference held in Feb'07, IBM announced their plans all the way to 22nm. AMD, Freescale, Sony and Toshiba all have development deals for 32nm and 22nm. The Common Platform partners (Charted, Samsung, Infineon) are currently signed up for 45nm and 32nm. IBM is slated for 45nm volume manufacturing in 4Q07. Check your facts before posting blatantly wrong information.
Ummm... what about IBM? Currently Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, Freescale, AMD, Infineon and Samsung all pay IBM money to do the R&D needed for advanced CMOS processing. The net result is that roughly 75% of the world's chips are produced with IBM technology.
I'm definitely not a creationist, but don't think for a minute that psuedo- and anti-science is limited to religious zealots.
Look at all the things that people buy into today, particularly in Europe, such as homeopathy, reflexology, chiropractics, magnet therapy, colonics, yadda yadda. How many people believe that irradiated strawberries are radioactive? How many people sit around worrying about the "toxins" in the body? How many people belive that Feng Shui increases the positive "energy" in a room?
In other words, DENIED! Sorry, man, we've all been there.
My thoughts exactly.
As a woman, the initial feeling I got from the story is that this guy somehow persuaded this girl (who's level of friendship is probably not reciprocal) to use Ubuntu instead of Windows. That gives him an opportunity to continue the (somewhat desperate) interaction past the point of sale. A hint to geeks out there: Girls get scared when you start going out of your way to be "friendly" or "nice". Guys think the girl will be swept off her feet; girls think the guys are sacrificing their own time (and happiness) just to make them happy.
Depending on the target within the government, it could be very visible, or it could not be very visible.
Yep, that pretty much sums up the possible outcomes.
Anyone noticing a strong similarity between this article and about 95% of the stuff posted on digg every day? What's next, "The Top 10 Photoshop Filters of All Time?" :) Tagged slashdigg.
As of today, one Euro = $1.36
It takes 36% more dollars to equal one Euro. The Franc doesn't exist any more. Your math abilities and world knowledge should seriously concern people.
Since you're such an authority on the subject, why don't you put some real numbers behind your statement like the GP? What is the "total loss"?
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It's actually about 2/3 the speed of light (depending on the dielectric constant). The TFA might be referring to the drift velocity of electrons in the wire (on the order of a centimeter/s), which is not a particulary useful comparison.
I had a great experience with CallVantage for about 6-months. I actually forgot that we had VoIP most of the time. But then Charter, who handled the cable interet connection, did something and my connection became slow and unreliable. I ended up ditching the cable and going with DSL. I see no reason to pay $30/mo for VoIP when I already have phone service (it comes with the DSL), so I'm looking at Skype now for long distance calls.
Keep in mind that Power chips are used in high end servers, not commodity PCs. Given the expense of these servers, it's likely that the "OFMG 5GHZ!!!!111" reaction that typifies that commodity PC fanboy market does not apply. I doubt that IBM is sacrificing performance just to market 5GHz speeds (like Intel did with NetBurst).
One example is Claritin vs. Clarinex. (Both are anti-histamines that don't cause drowsiness in most people). Claritin was a cash cow for Schering-Plough whose patent expired a few years ago. It used to be prescription-only and the cost used was around $1 a pill. Now you can buy 300-ct bottles over-the-counter at CostCo for ~ $10.00.
Enter Clarinex, which Schering claims is certified for both indoor and outdoor allergies. Once again, it's a prescription-only medication with high prices. The punch line: Clarinex is exactly the same drug as Claritin after Claritin passes through your liver once. There are tons of examples like this, where drug companies change the chemical formulation only slightly, usually in inactive places of the molecule (i.e. the "business end" that interacts with the target enzymes is unchanged). Why new formulations like this are granted patents is beyond me.
True, but let's hope this process doesn't require the expensive purification steps that are required to make proteins suitable for human injection. The process might even be able to run with the enzyme-producing bacteria living directly in the water that they are decomposing, with added nutrients of course. Ideally the system could be run ad infinitum as a steady state bioreactor, although this might be difficult to achieve in practice.
As someone who on more than one occassion has accidentally lefts a couple of tens instead of a couple of ones for a tip at a bar, I certainly would welcome anything which allows me to discern bills more clearly when I have trouble focusing.
This is a steaming pile of BS right here.:
"You really need to see a demo of the system playing the latest games, in 3D, with a pair of standard 3D glasses (similar to those handed out at IMAX or Real D cinemas)"
Those IMAX glasses are designed to work with polarized 3D sources. The lenses are designed to only let one orientation of polarized light in, call it 0 or 90 degrees. One lens is rotated 90 degrees to the other, so each eye sees a separate polarization. Two projectors are used, each projecting different polarizations.
So basically, this company has apparently figured out to get your existing monitor or TV to magically display two orientations of polarized light, simultaneously! And the best part is, they are modifying the graphics card, not the display, to do it!
This whole article smells like an elaborate troll.
If the dems go apeshit with impeachment and investigations, they can pretty much give up all hope on 2008. Sure the DailyKOS folks will rally behind them, but most of the electorate will find all the proceedings to be tedious and revengeful. Witness the decline in Republican confidence after the Clinton impeachment fiasco. Impeachement would take at least a year; Bush is out in two. Wait it out.
"[legal] immigrants will be arrested if they come to the polls"
Ummm... unless those immigrants are U.S. citizens they aren't allowed to vote. They probably won't be arrested, but they shouldn't be there anyway, legal or illegal.
I should live a long and fruitful life then!
My pussy smells. Time to douche!
Am I the only one here who gets her news from newspapers, ala The New York Times and The Wallstreet Journal? One of the most enjoyable parts of my day is sipping coffee in the morning while reading the newspapers. I can't stand any evening television broadcast of the news, Daily Show or otherwise.
Have you ever read transcripts of the television news casts? Each story is usually a paragraph of text at most, whereas the reporting on the same subject in a newspaper will usually be several columns.
It saddens me that today's youth brags about getting all their news from the daily show while newspaper circulation is in rapid decline.
I love the people who always get into a hissy fit about the US of A being called America.
As another poster stated, there is no continent named America. Furthermore, the common understanding around the world is that "America" refers to the United States. People who bitch about it are just begging for attention, in a pedantic sort of way: Look at me!! I'm so smart and you're all so stupid! It's the USA, not America!!
Duly noted, fuckheads. Now go form an opinion that actually matters.
Corning sells very few things in the public sector. They do have a serious business in fiber optics, so you can start boycotting any telco or cable company who uses their products. Also, they make photomask blanks for semiconductor (chip-making) companies, so you can boycott IBM, Intel, AMD, Samsung, etc.
Sorry, but you're wrong. It's about enabling the telcos to provide ipTV in competition with the cable companies, without having to get permission from every single local government. FWIW, ipTV is not the same as Apple iTV.
I'm not a big fan of local governement-sanctioned cable monopolies, seeing how the price of cable is inflating faster than anyhing else.
Currently, cable companies are government sanctioned monopolies whose charter to provide cable service is voted on by the local (municipal) government.
Thus, for telcos to come in and over TV service to a given municipality's residents requires them to go to each individual town and expand the charter. Since there are 10s of thousands of small towns across America, a prospect such as this becomes virtually impossible, even to someone like Verizon.
The proposed bill would eliminate the above restrictions and allow direct competition between the cable companies and telcos to provide TV service.