Fixing stuff is nothing new. Until the 80s or so fixng everything was common. A lot of the problems are due to one of two things: people want an upgrade anyway, and something breaking is a good excuse; massive integration makes it harder, if not impossible, to service some devices.
The context here is for NIH-funded papers about NIH-funded developmnents.
If the people have already paid for the development (through NIH funding) then who should benefit from the patent?
The whole ethics of patenting is a seperate subject, but in general, I'd think that if public money funded the development then the fruits should be put in the public domain.
They're a fine race of people that do not deserve to be grouped with Yahoo execs or even congressmen. Just because they lack lobby groups means its OK to mock their stature etc does it?
Let's see a Congressman get away with substituting in Black/Jew whatever and lasting out the day.
It's actually quite true. The labels create the stars. Sure, the pre-star people need to provide at least some material to work with, but ultimately stardom is created by the labels. They do the hyping and arrange shows etc. and have to invest huge to create those stars.
It's really no different than developing any other product. Look at Coke: take some caramel coloring, caffiene, sugar carbon dioxide and water and you have cola. The only difference between any other cola and Coke is advertising and brand promotion.
is it kind of takes you to where you want to go and at the approximate time you want to get there, but not exactly.
There are parking problems and traffic jams. Last time I drove to the airport along the 101 it took me at least 30 minutes longer than I expected. When I got there it took me a while to find parking- a long distance from where I wanted to be. Independent transport is not as reliable as some would make out.
This announcement is about a "platform", not an actual phone. I've worked with many projects taking a device from the "platform/BSP" level to product level. Anyone that has actually built a product will tell you that having a platform is only a small part of making an actual product.It's a bit more than just designing a new logo.
Openness does not necessarily make for a better product. Yet another "open" platform in a highly fragmented market does not help the industry.
By the time they've been through University, their thinking processes have been moulded. Wouldn't Google do far better getting them even younger than that?
What a stupid thing to say. Modern capacitors are very different than old sturdy capacitors, and also from the less-than-surdy electrolytics which would often explode. The new caps have far better charge density and use very sophisticated dielectrics.
Saying that modern capacitors are like old ones is like comparing a carbon-fiber poles to a pole made by cutting down a tree.
One of the biggest challenges with large capacitcnce devices is getting rid of the effective series resistance (ESR). High energy capacitors of even a few years ago had such high ESRs that they'd take minutes to charge and could only deliver a few mA, making them suitable for nothing more than keeping CMOS clocks going etc.
NAND flash was invented in 1988 (when working stuff was demonstrated). It took 10 years to really get going and a further five or more years to become really mainstream.
By comparison, nano-blaah is a long way off being able to demonstrate even a 1Mbyte storage, yet alone making it cheaply enough to be a mass storage player. I figure flash has a long life yet.
As parent says, using a list to "do not track" is self contradictory.
The only way to do it is via some sort of "don't track me" token. But what do we really mean by "don't track me". Some services need cookies etc. Are cookies tracking? What about the context used to set up a secure connection for transactions?
I think it fair to say that IT policies are not there no be enforced all the time. They are there to give IT staff the tools to manage the system effectively and prevent excesses.
For example the last place I worked at, the official line was "no personal use" but it was deemed OK to download a few mp3s or a Fedora ISO image here and there, thansfer your photos to flickr etc, but they stomped down hard on the guy who used approx 1/3 of the network bandwidth to download DVDs for his home viewing (and to give to his buddies etc). Printing a few tens of pages here and there for personal use was OK, but they stomped the the person who did a 5000 page print run for their club newsletter.
I don't think there are any easy answers due to different processes required to make different grade silicon and for other differences too (strenght, temperature etc). The crap they put into solar calculators etc could be made on a barbeque at home (well almost). Different doping levels require different amounts of baking and highly uniform doping requires doing it slowly.
Waste wafers get you past the boule stage. You'd need to redope them though.
To give you an idea... First you have to melt sand. Not cheese on a pizza, but sand.... then keep in melted while building up the silicon boule which takes a good long time. Then you cut it into wafers and a lot of the material gets lost in the kerf. Then there is doping where the wafers need to be kept at very high temperatures for many hours while the dopants get absorbed into the wafers...
That's a lot of heating that needs to be done very cleanly so uses electrical power which is far more wasteful than trying to get the same heat from a primary source (gas/oil etc).
No wonder PV has such long energy payback times and costs so much.
To get energy input (and thus $/watt too) to practical levels requires a change from wafer-based technology.
While most PV is currently constructed from wafer silicon, this is not a viable long-term strategy because it takes so much energy to make a wafer. To make real progress, PV needs to move to alternative technologies.
If you think millions of kids are signing up to Facebook for its function, you're probably wrong. Most likely they're doing this to be in with the groovy (or whatever they're called now) kids. That relies on branding and brand awareness.
An OSS facebook has no branding and coolness (perhaps geekiness, but that is not cool). Just like Coke would not care about an opensource cola, Facebook does not care about an open source service.
And do you really think that youngsters are worried about privacy?
The problem with being nostalgic is that you tend to forget the crapness of old technology too and just fondly remember some minor benefit of childhood memory. I fondly remember using hurricane lamps as a child, that smell of kero etc... but electric lights are far more convenient and don't spill or set stuff on fire.
CDs are relatively immune to a few minor scratches warping and dust, they don't need lots of cupboard space and store easily. You can rip them easily and quickly on a standard PC (no need for a special vinyl player).
Perhaps the odd audiophile/luddite might want his vinyl back, but the vast majority of folk would rather have CDs.
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Not enough reasosns to move from Fedora 7, IMHO, but to each their own. Maybe I'll wait for Fedora 9.
Fixing stuff is nothing new. Until the 80s or so fixng everything was common. A lot of the problems are due to one of two things: people want an upgrade anyway, and something breaking is a good excuse; massive integration makes it harder, if not impossible, to service some devices.
If the people have already paid for the development (through NIH funding) then who should benefit from the patent?
The whole ethics of patenting is a seperate subject, but in general, I'd think that if public money funded the development then the fruits should be put in the public domain.
Having access to papers is one step, but surely any fruits of this research should also be placed in the public domain.
Let's see a Congressman get away with substituting in Black/Jew whatever and lasting out the day.
It's really no different than developing any other product. Look at Coke: take some caramel coloring, caffiene, sugar carbon dioxide and water and you have cola. The only difference between any other cola and Coke is advertising and brand promotion.
There are parking problems and traffic jams. Last time I drove to the airport along the 101 it took me at least 30 minutes longer than I expected. When I got there it took me a while to find parking- a long distance from where I wanted to be. Independent transport is not as reliable as some would make out.
Openness does not necessarily make for a better product. Yet another "open" platform in a highly fragmented market does not help the industry.
By the time they've been through University, their thinking processes have been moulded. Wouldn't Google do far better getting them even younger than that?
If you therapist allows, may I possibly float out the notion that you might not be exactly 100% correct?
Millions of smartphones etc run Linux. Way more than the laptops and servers combined.
Saying that modern capacitors are like old ones is like comparing a carbon-fiber poles to a pole made by cutting down a tree.
One of the biggest challenges with large capacitcnce devices is getting rid of the effective series resistance (ESR). High energy capacitors of even a few years ago had such high ESRs that they'd take minutes to charge and could only deliver a few mA, making them suitable for nothing more than keeping CMOS clocks going etc.
That wouldn't be sucure would it?
I'm predicting this wine into water dude won't be remembered after 2000 minutes, let alone 2000 years.
By comparison, nano-blaah is a long way off being able to demonstrate even a 1Mbyte storage, yet alone making it cheaply enough to be a mass storage player. I figure flash has a long life yet.
The only way to do it is via some sort of "don't track me" token. But what do we really mean by "don't track me". Some services need cookies etc. Are cookies tracking? What about the context used to set up a secure connection for transactions?
For example the last place I worked at, the official line was "no personal use" but it was deemed OK to download a few mp3s or a Fedora ISO image here and there, thansfer your photos to flickr etc, but they stomped down hard on the guy who used approx 1/3 of the network bandwidth to download DVDs for his home viewing (and to give to his buddies etc). Printing a few tens of pages here and there for personal use was OK, but they stomped the the person who did a 5000 page print run for their club newsletter.
It comes down to "reasonable force".
Waste wafers get you past the boule stage. You'd need to redope them though.
That's a lot of heating that needs to be done very cleanly so uses electrical power which is far more wasteful than trying to get the same heat from a primary source (gas/oil etc).
No wonder PV has such long energy payback times and costs so much.
To get energy input (and thus $/watt too) to practical levels requires a change from wafer-based technology.
While most PV is currently constructed from wafer silicon, this is not a viable long-term strategy because it takes so much energy to make a wafer. To make real progress, PV needs to move to alternative technologies.
If you think millions of kids are signing up to Facebook for its function, you're probably wrong. Most likely they're doing this to be in with the groovy (or whatever they're called now) kids. That relies on branding and brand awareness.
An OSS facebook has no branding and coolness (perhaps geekiness, but that is not cool). Just like Coke would not care about an opensource cola, Facebook does not care about an open source service.
And do you really think that youngsters are worried about privacy?
proposed new autotag for all kdawson stuff.
If it aint universal it aint a Turing machine
CDs are relatively immune to a few minor scratches warping and dust, they don't need lots of cupboard space and store easily. You can rip them easily and quickly on a standard PC (no need for a special vinyl player).
Perhaps the odd audiophile/luddite might want his vinyl back, but the vast majority of folk would rather have CDs.
New rules. Please shave your legs before take off, not in space!