On our recent honeymoon in NZ I used a USB MP3 player with a mic to record short notes. Worked great, got lots of ambient sounds to go with the pics, plus now I'll always know how dorky I sound in person....
i use windows and have a hardware firewall, run ie and outlook express and have never had a problem. it can almost always be chalked up to not knowing how to operate things properly.
One of the big advantages to the 747 is time on target capacity. I can't see the page due to the slashdotting, but when recently speaking to the Or. state fire tanker director he mentioned that this thing can stay on target for extended smaller drops for up to ~8 hours. Most of the other tanker out there have a very limited time on target ability.
You will not be disappointed. The extended TTT has enough extra material to make the movie almost a new story- you get character development and background on just about everyone. My only misgiving was that the Flotsam and Jetsam scene didn't quite live up to the humor of the book.
Sorry for the shot off the hip Alomex.. not enough coffee yet.
I think we are at the development point where Moore's law will be broken by economic concerns, rather than technological. The cost of making 90nm is significant, to develop a new design at this technology node will require several million just for the mask set, let alone the additional NRE costs that are figuring into current process node designs (design for test/manufacturing costs are skyrocketing on new technologies). Joe Schmoe chip designer & Co aren't going to be able to afford to spin new chips on 65nm processes using conventional designs. Chip volumes have to be at Intel scales in order to break even. Why push it so hard when 130nm and 90nm are just getting ripe? If Intel is the only customer at the 65mn node, tool vendors are going to be scarce and expensive, posing a further delay to the 65nm production ramp. I'd guess we don't see real production volume at the 65nm node until 07 or later.
I'm virtually certain that you meant semiconductor.
I'm also virtually certain that IBM has press-releases concerning nanotube-based transistors, which I'm actually certain has nothing to do with design rules and designing fabs. This smells like nothing more than a paper release, similar to earlier releases/predictions that the semiconductor industry would be standardized on 300mm wafers by now, which has failed to materialize.
I think you have that backwoards- Infocus is the major OEM manufacturer and sells projector enginges (guts minus the skins) to Epson, Sanyo, RCA, etc... Look at RCA's latest rear projection HDTVs- infocus inside.
7 years, and only one scrape---> oil slick from a SUV at a stop light. Successfully riding a bike makes you a safer driver. Kind of like why insurance companies give breaks on car insurance to pilots. I'd advocate everyone's first vehicle being a bike- it would weed out the people who shouldn't be on the road in any form, and raise the skillset of everyone else.
Take LOTR- the effects are there primarily to tell the story, and are intended to NOT be noticed. Blah blah blah yeah 70 foot tall flaming demon...YOU settle DOWN. The point is that without the Balrog, the story is different. Without the Ents, the story is different. The story would not have been possible to tell without CG, it becomes both a creative element, and a set piece.
MR OTOH, the CG added little to the plot. Not terribly creative, and not really set either, mostly gratuity. An impressive display of what computers are now capable of doing, but not much more so than the 64k demos floating around out there.
As a further logical extension, why don't we, as a community, put together a boilerplate injuntion, mirroring Redhats injunction action?
Forget the class action, let hundreds, nay, thousands of./'ers present their local court with the case and watch SCO poof out of existence trying to just show up for court day.
Slashdot SCO through the courts.... what was I thinking....
Most heat sensitive devices are background (the backside of the wafer is gound off to remove material/make the die thinner) to aid in heat transfer- silicon is not the best material for transferring heat away from the active region of the die.
As for thickness, I would not recommend thinning the die any further than the manufacturer already does- most CPUs (see any Athlon) are in a flip chip package- the front side of the die is bonded to the package. This bonding builds up a bunch of mechanical stress in the part, thinning it after bonding without professional tools is a sure way to crack the die.
Suppose I am the greedy SOB who is gonna tip off GW about my buddy's attack. Why would I risk it on the (relatively) low payoff I can get from a site that only registers 1000 new participants a day, when I can more easily and anonymously play around with, say, airline options?
Is $3M/yr worth building a diplomatic eyesore that only filters the stupid and greedy?
Current process technologies make use of a silicide layer on top of the polysilicon gates to reduce the resistance of the gate. Your signal typically arrives at a single contact point, and must spread along the gate- lowering the sheet resistance of the gate speeds signal propagation. This is fine and good, but you still end up with a short distance that signal must travel through polysilicon - vertically. Moving to a metal silicide gate eliminates the slowdown of poly, gives you best local signal propagation at the gate level.
As for the tunable workfunction, hmm... I dunno. Maybe this is being tuned high, raising the threshold level at which you start tunneling electrons out of the metal and through the gate oxide- this would be of major impact to reliability and overall performance.
Or chopping off your arm when trapped by a boulder to save your life... Nobody would do that...err....right?/throws away pocketknife....just in case...
Exactly the problem with out current (and past) legislatures. We are in the worst economic downturn the state has seen, 5 special sessions to try to find a budget last year, and the state is wasting money on this obviously flawed program, instead of spending the money where it needs to be spent.
Same goes with the recent county-by-county income tax resolutions: here in Portland we were told to pass the tax or school would be cancelled and 46 sex offenders let out of prison. What about the 13,000 other (less socially abhorrent and less useful to the pro-tax campaign) prisoners?
The tax was passed, and now I get notice that our local school district is throwing a party, catered, full bar, in one of the nicer ballrooms in downtown Portland.
I guess this is just another crafty, intelligently formed state plan to increase tax revenue:
1.when our kids need schoolbooks, we give out beer.
2.Attract more people to the state.
3???
4. Prof...errr...Taxes!!!
Beautiful thought man......err...wait a minute, call the TIA, the Amish are raiding/.!!!
Really now, this is slashdot. If we all went amish the world would be deforested just from making wooden keyboards!!! Not to mention the PETA outcries from all the kittens and puppies press-ganged into slave labor on treadmills to power our access points and servers. Think of the fire-hazard a proper slashdotting would present to a wooden web server!!!
I was under the impression that MyGNUSAP-Firebird was technicaly differentiated enough from Pontiac's offerings that the the FTC would give it the OK....
Obvious??? This is supposed to be obvious to the guys who think I need a merchant account to access my home mortgage to enlarge my goods for that date with the girl from the e-card whom I can buy prescription drugs for, should she get a migraine from trying to sorth through all her "legitimate" emails in a day?
Slashdot Mirror
Just checked, and yep, there's a "forward" link at the bottom of the message. Guess that arguement is shot...
Oregonian Article
ummmm... this is ars... not then NYT... No reg required. Move along... move along...
On our recent honeymoon in NZ I used a USB MP3 player with a mic to record short notes. Worked great, got lots of ambient sounds to go with the pics, plus now I'll always know how dorky I sound in person....
One of the big advantages to the 747 is time on target capacity. I can't see the page due to the slashdotting, but when recently speaking to the Or. state fire tanker director he mentioned that this thing can stay on target for extended smaller drops for up to ~8 hours. Most of the other tanker out there have a very limited time on target ability.
You will not be disappointed. The extended TTT has enough extra material to make the movie almost a new story- you get character development and background on just about everyone. My only misgiving was that the Flotsam and Jetsam scene didn't quite live up to the humor of the book.
I think we are at the development point where Moore's law will be broken by economic concerns, rather than technological. The cost of making 90nm is significant, to develop a new design at this technology node will require several million just for the mask set, let alone the additional NRE costs that are figuring into current process node designs (design for test/manufacturing costs are skyrocketing on new technologies). Joe Schmoe chip designer & Co aren't going to be able to afford to spin new chips on 65nm processes using conventional designs. Chip volumes have to be at Intel scales in order to break even. Why push it so hard when 130nm and 90nm are just getting ripe? If Intel is the only customer at the 65mn node, tool vendors are going to be scarce and expensive, posing a further delay to the 65nm production ramp. I'd guess we don't see real production volume at the 65nm node until 07 or later.
Cheers, Snooch
I'm also virtually certain that IBM has press-releases concerning nanotube-based transistors, which I'm actually certain has nothing to do with design rules and designing fabs. This smells like nothing more than a paper release, similar to earlier releases/predictions that the semiconductor industry would be standardized on 300mm wafers by now, which has failed to materialize.
I did like the picture though. I was just waiting for the midi "I Dudditz!" to come on....
I think you have that backwoards- Infocus is the major OEM manufacturer and sells projector enginges (guts minus the skins) to Epson, Sanyo, RCA, etc... Look at RCA's latest rear projection HDTVs- infocus inside.
Take a look at Infocu- they are offering the X1 for $999. Excellent reviews, and how can you argue with a bigscreen for $1000?
7 years, and only one scrape---> oil slick from a SUV at a stop light. Successfully riding a bike makes you a safer driver. Kind of like why insurance companies give breaks on car insurance to pilots. I'd advocate everyone's first vehicle being a bike- it would weed out the people who shouldn't be on the road in any form, and raise the skillset of everyone else.
Take LOTR- the effects are there primarily to tell the story, and are intended to NOT be noticed. Blah blah blah yeah 70 foot tall flaming demon...YOU settle DOWN. The point is that without the Balrog, the story is different. Without the Ents, the story is different. The story would not have been possible to tell without CG, it becomes both a creative element, and a set piece.
MR OTOH, the CG added little to the plot. Not terribly creative, and not really set either, mostly gratuity. An impressive display of what computers are now capable of doing, but not much more so than the 64k demos floating around out there.
Cheers, Snooch
Forget the class action, let hundreds, nay, thousands of ./'ers present their local court with the case and watch SCO poof out of existence trying to just show up for court day.
Slashdot SCO through the courts.... what was I thinking....
As for thickness, I would not recommend thinning the die any further than the manufacturer already does- most CPUs (see any Athlon) are in a flip chip package- the front side of the die is bonded to the package. This bonding builds up a bunch of mechanical stress in the part, thinning it after bonding without professional tools is a sure way to crack the die.
Is $3M/yr worth building a diplomatic eyesore that only filters the stupid and greedy?
As for the tunable workfunction, hmm... I dunno. Maybe this is being tuned high, raising the threshold level at which you start tunneling electrons out of the metal and through the gate oxide- this would be of major impact to reliability and overall performance.
Or chopping off your arm when trapped by a boulder to save your life... Nobody would do that...err....right? /throws away pocketknife....just in case...
Same goes with the recent county-by-county income tax resolutions: here in Portland we were told to pass the tax or school would be cancelled and 46 sex offenders let out of prison. What about the 13,000 other (less socially abhorrent and less useful to the pro-tax campaign) prisoners?
The tax was passed, and now I get notice that our local school district is throwing a party, catered, full bar, in one of the nicer ballrooms in downtown Portland.
I guess this is just another crafty, intelligently formed state plan to increase tax revenue:
1.when our kids need schoolbooks, we give out beer.
2.Attract more people to the state.
3???
4. Prof...errr...Taxes!!!
Really now, this is slashdot. If we all went amish the world would be deforested just from making wooden keyboards!!! Not to mention the PETA outcries from all the kittens and puppies press-ganged into slave labor on treadmills to power our access points and servers. Think of the fire-hazard a proper slashdotting would present to a wooden web server!!!
I was under the impression that MyGNUSAP-Firebird was technicaly differentiated enough from Pontiac's offerings that the the FTC would give it the OK....
Obvious??? This is supposed to be obvious to the guys who think I need a merchant account to access my home mortgage to enlarge my goods for that date with the girl from the e-card whom I can buy prescription drugs for, should she get a migraine from trying to sorth through all her "legitimate" emails in a day?
I first mis-interpreted the title as an art-intro: a painting of two children sitting in front of the screen, watching the wagon roll west....
Lookout everybody, Balmer's started reading /.!!!