This type of fakery only serves to deceive the consumer, instead of informing then. Instead of lying to the very people who pay their salary, the AMD marketing department should place a call over to Intel and ask to coordinate a marketing campaign explaining the irrelavency of clock speed and deciding a more appropriate way to base the performance of their chips.
This is a violation of everyones right to free speech.
Wheter or not you want to hear them, solicitors have the right to send you all the shit they want.
One reply to one of my earlier comments about this saidI was confusing the right to speak with the right to be listened to but I'm not. If you are being told you can't speak to people because they said they didn't want to hear you, its violating your right to free speech.
But who cares, just one more nail in the coffin of the Constitution...
From the Science & Technology Desk Published 1/31/2003 4:07 PM View printer-friendly version
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- New, tiny magnetic sensors could help break a technical barrier to ushering in the next generation of computer disk storage capacity, researchers reported Friday.
The sensors, filaments of nickel thinner than a wavelength of visible light, are capable of detecting extremely weak magnetic fields.
Although it is already possible to increase hard drive storage capacity many times, the process has lagged because technology has not existed to read the data signals, researcher Harsh Chopra, a materials scientist at the State University of New York in Buffalo, told United Press International.
"Now we can," he said.
The problem with expanding storage disk capacity is that as data bits become exceedingly small, their magnetic fields become correspondingly weaker and harder to read, Chopra explained. In order to read data signals reliably, the signals must produce a large enough change in the electrical resistance of the computer's magnetic sensors. The signals also must produce those changes at room temperature.
In findings to be published in next July's issue of the journal Physical Review B, Chopra and physicist Susan Hua described sensors they have developed that are both small and sensitive to improve the density of hard drives.
The sensors are actually microscopic whiskers of nickel only a few atoms wide. Each of the filaments can read infinitesimal magnetic fields and at room temperature can detect a 100,000 percent change in voltage.
The sensors result in "much clearer signals," Chopra said.
For comparison, he explained, imagine normal magnetic sensors can read a signal that begins with a strength of 1 and swings between an "off" reading at 0.8 and "on" at 1.2. The new sensors can read a range that swings between minus 1000 and plus 1000. That degree of sensitivity means terabits of data -- or trillions of bits -- could be crammed into a square inch of disk space. About 160 terabits comprise the entire contents of the Library of Congress.
Chopra said the extreme sensitivity of the new sensors is due to a phenomenon called "ballistic magnetoresistance," or BMR.
"Normally, when electrons travel in a wire, they go in a zigzag pattern, scattered by impurities or temperature-dependent effects," he explained. "Here the conductor has become so small, the electrons travel in straight paths."
Chopra said the ballistic electrons lead to clearer binary signals -- at least in part. However, "we don't fully understand how the signal is enhanced to such very large degrees," he said. "The existing theories don't yet explain it. There are some things here no one quite understands. That means there's a lot of science to be discovered yet."
Meanwhile, Chopra and Hua are experimenting with sensors made of other substances, such as magnetite and chromium oxide. They are using a manufacturing technique developed originally by researcher Nongjian Tao, of Arizona State University in Tempe. With it, they said, they can reproduce the sensors reliably and simply. Because the sensors remain sensitive at room temperature, they should attract industry attention quickly.
"The normal cycle for (such technologies) from discovery to implementation is about six to eight years," Chopra said.
The research is "very exciting," said K.L. Murty, director of the National Science Foundation's metals research program. "It could have a big impact on magnetic storage -- hard disks -- to put in more memory. It might also have a lot of biomedical applications," he said.
Chopra said the sensors also could be used to detect biomolecules, even in low concentrations. Each organic molecule could have its own fingerprint in terms of affecting whiskers' voltage.
"It might only be two to three years (until we have) a working device in biomedical applications," he said.
--
(Reported by Charles Choi, UPI Science News, in New York)
...this was just a problem caused by lazy system administrators. If the actually patched the way there were supposed to, instead of playing BSOH, this "worm" would never have got to the critical mass it did.
64 bit does not mean a thing. 99.99999999999999% of software today does NOT run on it, and the performance difference in mhz between 32 bit and 64 bit processors (especially in the north bridge) makes any performance gained by using 64 bit architecture negligible.
As usual, great tool for the server companies, crap for everyone else in the world.
17,000 users represents perhaps.2% of AOL's user base. With the recent MSN ad blitz aimed at the gay community, I'm surprised that the drop wasn't more.
How would this work? We all can't be assigned the small part of the internet, and be told to download it. Also, if the internet is down, it is most likely that we won't be able to access the internet either.
"Several weeks ago, Larry Lessig proposed anti-spam legislation he'd like to see Congress pass -- legislation which he was willing to bet his job on. Now it looks like Washington might be taking his bet... and they want us to help out!"
When will they be willing to "help us out" and get rid of the DCMA?
IBM hasn't done anything to actually support Linex yet.
What needs it happen: IBM needs to use all the programmers who formerly worked on OS2/AIX to make a user friendly Linux distro, and convince all it's corporate customers to use Linux. Then, I'll belive IBM is really behind Linux.
We are all so caught up in hating RAMBUS, that we fail to realize they rightfully own the patent under U.S. law no matter how many other people violated it
If you made a chip that ran at 10 ghz right now because of your skill with iron-steel-copper interconnecting rails, and patented it in September of 2003, and the following year Intel used the same process, would you like it? No!
In anticipation of the 5 or 6 flames I'll receive claiming it's a different case, it isn't. No one cared about SDRAM 20 years ago, so it wasn't publicized. Also, RAMBUS (or whoever held the patent at that time) lacked the time and money for an expensive legal battle with the whole memory industry at that time.
Boilerplate activism is one of the greatest inventions ever. As the head of a non-profit group based in NY (can't say which, legal reasons), it is tremendously easy to provide a boilerplate to people concerned about issues rather than make them write an individual letter.
If we were to make them write an individual letter, with the state our society has collectively fallen into, I'd estimate about 2-3% of the current correspondence mailed would still be mailed.
Slashdot Mirror
My life/health is way more important than free speech, sorry for the bitter truth folks.
""Leave it to the kooks in the community to make Microsoft look sympathetic." Is he right?"
No one except the policy-makers in Microsoft know.
..if its their rightful intellectual property under US law, what's wrong with them claiming it?
A proprietary mail protocol by a major power (MS?) to eliminate IP address/e-mail address spoofing.
This type of fakery only serves to deceive the consumer, instead of informing then. Instead of lying to the very people who pay their salary, the AMD marketing department should place a call over to Intel and ask to coordinate a marketing campaign explaining the irrelavency of clock speed and deciding a more appropriate way to base the performance of their chips.
This is a violation of everyones right to free speech.
Wheter or not you want to hear them, solicitors have the right to send you all the shit they want.
One reply to one of my earlier comments about this saidI was confusing the right to speak with the right to be listened to but I'm not. If you are being told you can't speak to people because they said they didn't want to hear you, its violating your right to free speech.
But who cares, just one more nail in the coffin of the Constitution...
Why did they pick Opera, and not Mozilla or Netscape, not to mention Safari?
Why the heck would she do that in the first place?
Sounds just like a bored techie coming up with a story to post on the front page of Slashdot...
If NASA can't launch a shuttle safely, why should we as citizens be attempting it?
End of story.
"differences between building a high-end workstation and a high-end gaming system."
1. workstation == better processors
2. gaming system == better graphic cards
Scalable graphics are nice to reduce processor need for Palm PCs and the like, but aren't needed for the desktop.
Tiny whiskers make huge memory storage
From the Science & Technology Desk
Published 1/31/2003 4:07 PM
View printer-friendly version
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- New, tiny magnetic sensors could help break a technical barrier to ushering in the next generation of computer disk storage capacity, researchers reported Friday.
The sensors, filaments of nickel thinner than a wavelength of visible light, are capable of detecting extremely weak magnetic fields.
Although it is already possible to increase hard drive storage capacity many times, the process has lagged because technology has not existed to read the data signals, researcher Harsh Chopra, a materials scientist at the State University of New York in Buffalo, told United Press International.
"Now we can," he said.
The problem with expanding storage disk capacity is that as data bits become exceedingly small, their magnetic fields become correspondingly weaker and harder to read, Chopra explained. In order to read data signals reliably, the signals must produce a large enough change in the electrical resistance of the computer's magnetic sensors. The signals also must produce those changes at room temperature.
In findings to be published in next July's issue of the journal Physical Review B, Chopra and physicist Susan Hua described sensors they have developed that are both small and sensitive to improve the density of hard drives.
The sensors are actually microscopic whiskers of nickel only a few atoms wide. Each of the filaments can read infinitesimal magnetic fields and at room temperature can detect a 100,000 percent change in voltage.
The sensors result in "much clearer signals," Chopra said.
For comparison, he explained, imagine normal magnetic sensors can read a signal that begins with a strength of 1 and swings between an "off" reading at 0.8 and "on" at 1.2. The new sensors can read a range that swings between minus 1000 and plus 1000. That degree of sensitivity means terabits of data -- or trillions of bits -- could be crammed into a square inch of disk space. About 160 terabits comprise the entire contents of the Library of Congress.
Chopra said the extreme sensitivity of the new sensors is due to a phenomenon called "ballistic magnetoresistance," or BMR.
"Normally, when electrons travel in a wire, they go in a zigzag pattern, scattered by impurities or temperature-dependent effects," he explained. "Here the conductor has become so small, the electrons travel in straight paths."
Chopra said the ballistic electrons lead to clearer binary signals -- at least in part. However, "we don't fully understand how the signal is enhanced to such very large degrees," he said. "The existing theories don't yet explain it. There are some things here no one quite understands. That means there's a lot of science to be discovered yet."
Meanwhile, Chopra and Hua are experimenting with sensors made of other substances, such as magnetite and chromium oxide. They are using a manufacturing technique developed originally by researcher Nongjian Tao, of Arizona State University in Tempe. With it, they said, they can reproduce the sensors reliably and simply. Because the sensors remain sensitive at room temperature, they should attract industry attention quickly.
"The normal cycle for (such technologies) from discovery to implementation is about six to eight years," Chopra said.
The research is "very exciting," said K.L. Murty, director of the National Science Foundation's metals research program. "It could have a big impact on magnetic storage -- hard disks -- to put in more memory. It might also have a lot of biomedical applications," he said.
Chopra said the sensors also could be used to detect biomolecules, even in low concentrations. Each organic molecule could have its own fingerprint in terms of affecting whiskers' voltage.
"It might only be two to three years (until we have) a working device in biomedical applications," he said.
--
(Reported by Charles Choi, UPI Science News, in New York)
...this was just a problem caused by lazy system administrators. If the actually patched the way there were supposed to, instead of playing BSOH, this "worm" would never have got to the critical mass it did.
64 bit does not mean a thing. 99.99999999999999% of software today does NOT run on it, and the performance difference in mhz between 32 bit and 64 bit processors (especially in the north bridge) makes any performance gained by using 64 bit architecture negligible.
As usual, great tool for the server companies, crap for everyone else in the world.
I've always wanted another special-edition DVD to waste 30 bucks on!
17,000 users represents perhaps .2% of AOL's user base. With the recent MSN ad blitz aimed at the gay community, I'm surprised that the drop wasn't more.
Help your fellow P2Pers, do it right, and get real files everyone wants.
Who knows if the other computer is correct?
The real answer is a smaller scale super computer controllig the distributed computing.
To post this kind of information open for any deranged teenager to peruse in order to blow up his high school a la Columbine should be illegal.
What has America come to when you need a permit to protest war peacefully, but are allowed to post information like this freely?
How would this work? We all can't be assigned the small part of the internet, and be told to download it. Also, if the internet is down, it is most likely that we won't be able to access the internet either.
"Several weeks ago, Larry Lessig proposed anti-spam legislation he'd like to see Congress pass -- legislation which he was willing to bet his job on. Now it looks like Washington might be taking his bet... and they want us to help out!"
When will they be willing to "help us out" and get rid of the DCMA?
IBM hasn't done anything to actually support Linex yet.
What needs it happen: IBM needs to use all the programmers who formerly worked on OS2/AIX to make a user friendly Linux distro, and convince all it's corporate customers to use Linux. Then, I'll belive IBM is really behind Linux.
"This is very bad news for owners of computers."
We are all so caught up in hating RAMBUS, that we fail to realize they rightfully own the patent under U.S. law no matter how many other people violated it
If you made a chip that ran at 10 ghz right now because of your skill with iron-steel-copper interconnecting rails, and patented it in September of 2003, and the following year Intel used the same process, would you like it?
No!
In anticipation of the 5 or 6 flames I'll receive claiming it's a different case, it isn't. No one cared about SDRAM 20 years ago, so it wasn't publicized. Also, RAMBUS (or whoever held the patent at that time) lacked the time and money for an expensive legal battle with the whole memory industry at that time.
Boilerplate activism is one of the greatest inventions ever. As the head of a non-profit group based in NY (can't say which, legal reasons), it is tremendously easy to provide a boilerplate to people concerned about issues rather than make them write an individual letter.
If we were to make them write an individual letter, with the state our society has collectively fallen into, I'd estimate about 2-3% of the current correspondence mailed would still be mailed.