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  1. Re:Intel will probably close an older fab in Chand on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They also might find a customer for Fab 12.

  2. Re:Not Most Powerful Chips in 3-4 Years on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD is completely dependent on the technology of others like Global and TSMC. Intel can fail at developing a new process and still fall back on external vendors.

  3. A rising tide lifts all boats -- except the ones with holes in the head.

  4. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Treason. Influence peddling. Perjury.

  5. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's nominations for department heads, and those already confirmed, are as a group the best in the last 190 years. He's a patriot. He's the first President since Reagan who has an understanding of economics and power politics. His picks especially stand in contrast to Obama's p(r)icks, who were explicitly dedicated to destroying America's culture, economy, freedom, and military strength.

    You, on the other hand, can't see beyond your ideology.

  6. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The UN fairies are forcing nothing. When the US stops supporting the UN, the UN will dissipate like a kicked puffball.

  7. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ooh! Ooh! I'm bleeding from that tongue lashing.

    Look here, snowflake: words are not punishment.

  8. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    There is some reason to believe that the US will be a more business-friendly place during the lifespan of this fab, i.e. lower taxes and fewer draconian regulations. Ireland has ceased being a tax haven due to EU pressures, and any place with a high Muslim population is a risk for physical damage. Intel has had 3 months to weigh the pros and cons, and a Trump administration may have been enough to tip the balance to Arizona.

  9. According to wikipedia, A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.

    . By that definition, an abacus doesn't qualify.

    More traditionally,
    Yo mama
    is a computer.

  10. Re:But can it survive Fukushima? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Silicon Carbide has a bandgap considerably higher than silicon. Other things being equal, that makes it more resistant to radiation-induced carriers.

  11. Re:Is it really that hard? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but now you have to design motors and pumps that work reliably at 500 C, and choose an appropriate working fluid. Given the inefficiency of Peltier devices, Peltier is not a viable option.

  12. Re:I think we had this for a while on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Fluidics might be difficult. It's slow, and if you want liquid state you'd want to choose something liquid both at the conditions in space near Venus and at near 500 C on the surface. Vapor state is the other possibility - how much pneumatic logic is used, practically speaking?

    My first thought was, as you suggested, vacuum tube technology. Ceramics, tungsten and most other common metals are solid at 500 C, although aluminum is weak that high. With the proper material choice, a coated cathode wouldn't even need a heater above 450 C.

  13. That makes sense. A board level change would be to run the chip with a lower supply voltage, provided that does not degrade performance so much that the whole thing won't work.

  14. Re:New, super-high-tech paper, looks like on Scientists Have Invented Paper That You Can Print With Light, Erase With Heat, and Reuse 80 Times (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    mimeograph technology works by forcing a replenishable supply of ink through the stencil master. (wikipedia)

    No relation.

  15. Re:Congratulations! You re-invented Blueprints on Scientists Have Invented Paper That You Can Print With Light, Erase With Heat, and Reuse 80 Times (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Blueprints and other diazotypes use ammonia to develop the image.

  16. Re:Scientists have turned paper into hazardous was on Scientists Have Invented Paper That You Can Print With Light, Erase With Heat, and Reuse 80 Times (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide are the 2 most common white pigments. It might be appropriate to ban it in foods (I'm ignorant here) but ban it generally, no way.

  17. Many chemical reactions double in rate for every 10 Celsius degrees. (120 hours / 0.16 hours) = 750. 2^((120 degrees - 23 degrees)/10) = 831. That's pretty close agreement for a publicity blurb. "A summer day in your car" (10 hours) corresponds to 59 degrees Celsius, if I did my calculation right. That's 138 degrees Fahrenheit. Easily achieved.

  18. Or use it for kindling. What kind of toxins go into the air then?

  19. If it reverts in 5 days, it's probably badly faded in one day. Better scan it soon, and print it out on (gasp!) paper.

  20. Have you ever needed to compare a moderate number of documents, say 8 documents of 5 pages each? Spread them out on your desk, shuffle them, move them around, make notes and editing marks on them. How are you going to do that with e-readers? Now tape a few of them together to form a 17 by 22 inch document with all the details visible at once.

    I hope you have a solvent for the duck tape residue from taping together the e-readers, a solvent that doesn't attack e-reader case plastic.

  21. How literally do you mean "paperless"? Matte mylar may be as low as 6 cents for a letter-size sheet for thin stuff of questionable quality; sturdy stuff for engineering drawing about 50 cents.

  22. Re:Holography vs. projection on French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    All the holograms I've seen suffer from speckle. That's hardly "indistinguishabe from reality."

  23. Socialism attempts to provide universal poverty, except for those holding the reigns of power. Granted, that's not what socialism claims to provide, but I thought you lefty's were ever-so-adept at picking out lies in advertising.

    As regards medical care, there are 3 choices. You can save your own money, and have 100% of it to pay for your medical expenses. You can buy insurance, and the company will rake off at least 30%, leaving you with 70% to pay your medical expenses, averaged over the population. You can have the government replace the insurance companies, in which case the rake-off:remainder is closer to 50:50.

    Health insurance is not medical care.

  24. Re:Capital, means of production on French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    American English is a dialect with differences from English elsewhere. If you want to communicate with us, use our language.

  25. Re:Who else used holograms? on French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Help me, Robespierre, you're our only hope.