Well I can't name one right this moment. Could you come back in about 15 years? I am pretty sure the polar bears will be in serious trouble by then, if they still exist. (Oh what you are troll - never mind!)
Here is the one major item that I think everyone overlooks:
The last couple of years the Movie companies have moved toward sequels as a way of life. They are afraid of messing up - so they take the 'safe' route. (Pirates 1, 2 and 3 Shrek 1,2 and 3) Note for the most part sequels make less money each time. The record companies have been doing this even longer and I believe that this is why sales are dropping for the record industry. They are so afraid of failure that each new song is really a remake of what they have spewed for the last 10 years. I think that the last growth years for the record iindustry was when hip-hop was growing. Now hip-hop is stale (as is mainstream rock). I see no reason to buy any new music. It all sucks - or sounds just like (put in your favorite super band here). What is the point. I own enough Beatles/RollingStones/PinkFloyd/SRVaughn. Why should I buy a 'copy' band?
The upshot is that music sales will continue to slip until the record companies start to look at the music they sell. It is not the business model.
Ah but this was the idea behind T-maks. It does not work well because of the endless number of waves that occur as the temperatures ramp up. I remember seeing a high speed film from TFTR - where the plasma hit one of the divertors - it caused a big blob of 'stuff' to fly across the chamber. Big as in baseball size. This stuff hit the inside and exploded there - causing all sort of little bits to fly back the other way.... Not a good thing for a toy that needs excellent cleanliness. I don't think that this was ever published - I wonder why... Don't get me wrong - fusion should be studied - BUT anyone who claims it will be a power source is - or should be - on drugs.
Ouch! You win! How did that even get into production! This was AMD? (Or maybe Cisco.... that would fit better!)
Hint? Etch, doping, poly?
I've done some of each - as well as anneal and metalization. When I used to work for a company in the Bay Area, it was very focused in one area of the Si world - If I said in what field I would be telling you the name of the company. (The original company I worked for was broken up - but it is not HP - although I had friends there...) I am now in a non-industrial position and work with multiple companies. One company in the state that I now live had a prototype MEMS device that they could not etch (deep trench Oxide) - they were trying to do it on very old tools. I took 2 wafers and made some that worked on an experimental tool I have. (Showing how to do it in the process, for free. No tuning of the process just by gut instinct. Two runs does not optimize a process!) Their reply was - a somewhat nasty email telling me that the yield is not high enough! Talk about ungrateful B#$%$s. The company is named after a location in the US - there are more then one such coompanies in the semiconductor industry!
This was exactly my thought (being in the industry). WHY would Intel wait? If they are producing product then they would ship it. It is just plan stupid to let it sit on a shelf. Do you know how much it costs to produce a single wafer?? Hell if they are getting any yield they would be selling the chips.
Just to let you know how much this means to each of these companies - there was a time as a tool vendor that I helped AMD track down an issue (no I am not going to say which issue). AMD was certain that it was in our tools - turned out to be in an etch tool from another vendor. Some technician had rebuilt the tool and removed a small piece of insulator. It was destroying all of the top end product (I think that they had a yield of ~10% before and after we fixed the problem I think they were at about 80% yield.) That allowed AMD to go from a loss of ~40 M/q to a gain of about 40 M/q.
No, if Intel had product they would be selling it.
But they used the Doppler effect to explain it, surely that little scientific reference counts for something?
BUT they misuse the exponential term. (How many businesses can grow exponentially?) Do the authors know how fast of an increase that is for all but the smallest firms?
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Since when has the Antitrust settlement stopped MS from doing anything?
Sorry if this is a repeat - I have not read ALL of the other posts - but the first thing that came to my mind is that this has got to be VERY disturbing to Dell and HP (and the others). Might this drive them to push OSS more? I would think so as it is the only safety net that they have as a company. If MS competes on white boxes then there is no way that they could possibly compare on prices... This leaves them the option of OSS or maybe they would have to buy out Apple - but I would really doubt that would happen. (or maybe they could buy and repackage Warp - OS2 ???)
If you lay down with dogs--you are going to get fleas...
Not if you put that flea and tick repellent stuff on the dog you don't. Of course that is a LOT of dogs at Sony that you would have to cover - but it MIGHT work.
or we will end up with a server room fist fight broadcast on youtube.
I'll take Balmer over Jobs in the second round! Jobs will come in the best equipment money can buy but Balmer will change the shape of the court by fiat and then kick Jobs in the balls.
Not so - you just need to show that you used it and sold it to someone else BEFORE the patent application date. At that point it is not patentable. It is a little harder but...
I think that it has more to do with the time that the Patent officer has to spend on the patent. I am involved in such an issue and the offending patent has a "Korean" patent referenced on the front. That patent was from "1977". Guess what, the new patent was just a rehash of the "77" patent. (There is prior art to ~"1970".) How can I tell, I've read a translation old patent and the new patent. A laywer has said that because it is listed IN the patent - it is unlikely that a court would over turn the new patent.... The court will assume that the USPTO actually looked at the "Korean" document and thinks that it was different. That same laywer is seeking to find out if a translation of the "Korean" patent was looked at by the USPTO. He thinks it is unlikely. This is because of the time it would take to do so.
Note dates and names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Cache the Internet on a local server and connected each room via a quad fiber ATM connection.
So if I understand correctly, you are suggesting that Marriott needs to build a Google installation for each one of its hotels. Do you suppose Mattiott would be able to stay in business if it does this? When are they going to hold the auction on used bits left over from the former Marriott Corporation? I'd like to get a rack full of computers and raid drives... - or - Maybe I am misreading what you are suggesting....
By "Macs" do you mean "Mac computers with PowerPC processors"?
I guess that I do. I have a ~7 year old G3 that is running just fine. I know editors of journals - they are not flush with cash and I would expect that they also have older machines. Even still, a store bought XP license is not cheap - and academic types ARE cheap.
Where I work, we likewise aren't using Office 2007 format... because we aren't set up to use Office 2007.
It is just a thought BUT maybe they are using Macs - I run a Mac and the Mac version of Word excel, Power Point cannot read the new version of 2007 Office. There is no converter - yet. (Yes, I use Office - but it drives me nuts!) It seems to me that MS is going back to the bad old days of forcing upgrades by removing compatibilities.
You wanted an argument? Oh, I'm sorry, but this is abuse, you want room 12A, just along the corridor. Stupid git.
No, He(?) was not trying to confuse you. He(?) just wanted the abuse room - which you seem to be in charge of. SO, go ahead and abuse him. He wants to be ripped - the stupid git.
That huge run-on sentence is nothing but a badly-worded description of the totally obvious way to solve the the following problem:
I won't disagree with what you say about the quality of the patent - but the run-on and poorly worded bit is standard. I had a Lawyer explain it to me at one time - the upshot being that you need single sentences in the claims. The wording is also VERY precise (but not normal English!) Sorry - I do not remember the exact reason for the run-on bit but it made sense at the time.
Do you know what it is that they consult on? (I assume economic issues but I have been wrong once or twice in my life.) The other idea is to do Patent work. It is somewhat interesting and fun to smash patents - there are some god-awful patents out there!
I work about 50 hours a week (plus/. time, of course - it's my watercooler) - when I'm not under a real crunch, though I find that trying to get in more the 60 hours is pretty wasted time.
This is so true. For short huals you can work more but over a six month period about the best you can actually work is ~50+/-5 hours. If you get above this number then the number of productive hours start droping. If you are below the number of productive hours goes up in about a linear fashion with hours worked. Kind of like a pyramid. As a point - the Japanese "work" ~12 hours per day 6.5 days per week. BUT they never seem to do much while there. The French seem like they never have to go to work - yet when they are there, they are really productive. Yes, I know that this is a little bit of a generalization. There are people who only work productively 10 minutes a week and then there are people who seem to productively work 90 hours/week. I am talking about an average.
One thing to note is that I tell my graduate students to not stay too long and to take some vacations. This sounds strange but I want to maximize their productivity. (My advisor got mad at me once for wanting to take a vacation. We did not always see eye to eye - but my work got him tenure and me a PhD - so it was not all bad for either of us.)
Where are those firms? I have a PhD in Physics - and have taught EE for years at a 'research' university. I know the math like the back of my hand - and I am getting to the point in my life I might be interested in a change.
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This only works in Texas. In other states, the claims hold after death.
Well I can't name one right this moment. Could you come back in about 15 years? I am pretty sure the polar bears will be in serious trouble by then, if they still exist. (Oh what you are troll - never mind!)
The last couple of years the Movie companies have moved toward sequels as a way of life. They are afraid of messing up - so they take the 'safe' route. (Pirates 1, 2 and 3 Shrek 1,2 and 3) Note for the most part sequels make less money each time. The record companies have been doing this even longer and I believe that this is why sales are dropping for the record industry. They are so afraid of failure that each new song is really a remake of what they have spewed for the last 10 years. I think that the last growth years for the record iindustry was when hip-hop was growing. Now hip-hop is stale (as is mainstream rock). I see no reason to buy any new music. It all sucks - or sounds just like (put in your favorite super band here). What is the point. I own enough Beatles/RollingStones/PinkFloyd/SRVaughn. Why should I buy a 'copy' band?
The upshot is that music sales will continue to slip until the record companies start to look at the music they sell. It is not the business model.
Ah but this was the idea behind T-maks. It does not work well because of the endless number of waves that occur as the temperatures ramp up. I remember seeing a high speed film from TFTR - where the plasma hit one of the divertors - it caused a big blob of 'stuff' to fly across the chamber. Big as in baseball size. This stuff hit the inside and exploded there - causing all sort of little bits to fly back the other way.... Not a good thing for a toy that needs excellent cleanliness. I don't think that this was ever published - I wonder why... Don't get me wrong - fusion should be studied - BUT anyone who claims it will be a power source is - or should be - on drugs.
Yeah but I've got a couple in a box in my den closet! So which 2 laws would be best to break?
Ouch! You win! How did that even get into production! This was AMD? (Or maybe Cisco.... that would fit better!)
I've done some of each - as well as anneal and metalization. When I used to work for a company in the Bay Area, it was very focused in one area of the Si world - If I said in what field I would be telling you the name of the company. (The original company I worked for was broken up - but it is not HP - although I had friends there...) I am now in a non-industrial position and work with multiple companies. One company in the state that I now live had a prototype MEMS device that they could not etch (deep trench Oxide) - they were trying to do it on very old tools. I took 2 wafers and made some that worked on an experimental tool I have. (Showing how to do it in the process, for free. No tuning of the process just by gut instinct. Two runs does not optimize a process!) Their reply was - a somewhat nasty email telling me that the yield is not high enough! Talk about ungrateful B#$%$s. The company is named after a location in the US - there are more then one such coompanies in the semiconductor industry!
Just to let you know how much this means to each of these companies - there was a time as a tool vendor that I helped AMD track down an issue (no I am not going to say which issue). AMD was certain that it was in our tools - turned out to be in an etch tool from another vendor. Some technician had rebuilt the tool and removed a small piece of insulator. It was destroying all of the top end product (I think that they had a yield of ~10% before and after we fixed the problem I think they were at about 80% yield.) That allowed AMD to go from a loss of ~40 M/q to a gain of about 40 M/q.
No, if Intel had product they would be selling it.
BUT they misuse the exponential term. (How many businesses can grow exponentially?) Do the authors know how fast of an increase that is for all but the smallest firms?
OUCH!
Sorry if this is a repeat - I have not read ALL of the other posts - but the first thing that came to my mind is that this has got to be VERY disturbing to Dell and HP (and the others). Might this drive them to push OSS more? I would think so as it is the only safety net that they have as a company. If MS competes on white boxes then there is no way that they could possibly compare on prices... This leaves them the option of OSS or maybe they would have to buy out Apple - but I would really doubt that would happen. (or maybe they could buy and repackage Warp - OS2 ???)
Just a thought
Not if you put that flea and tick repellent stuff on the dog you don't. Of course that is a LOT of dogs at Sony that you would have to cover - but it MIGHT work.
Sooo.... if you are the lead designer, what will it come out on and about when?
I'll take Balmer over Jobs in the second round! Jobs will come in the best equipment money can buy but Balmer will change the shape of the court by fiat and then kick Jobs in the balls.
IANAL!
Note dates and names have been changed to protect the guilty.
So if I understand correctly, you are suggesting that Marriott needs to build a Google installation for each one of its hotels. Do you suppose Mattiott would be able to stay in business if it does this? When are they going to hold the auction on used bits left over from the former Marriott Corporation? I'd like to get a rack full of computers and raid drives... - or - Maybe I am misreading what you are suggesting....
OK - but as Jay Leno would say - Are we really getting THAT fat?
I guess that I do. I have a ~7 year old G3 that is running just fine. I know editors of journals - they are not flush with cash and I would expect that they also have older machines. Even still, a store bought XP license is not cheap - and academic types ARE cheap.
It is just a thought BUT maybe they are using Macs - I run a Mac and the Mac version of Word excel, Power Point cannot read the new version of 2007 Office. There is no converter - yet. (Yes, I use Office - but it drives me nuts!) It seems to me that MS is going back to the bad old days of forcing upgrades by removing compatibilities.
No, He(?) was not trying to confuse you. He(?) just wanted the abuse room - which you seem to be in charge of. SO, go ahead and abuse him. He wants to be ripped - the stupid git.
I won't disagree with what you say about the quality of the patent - but the run-on and poorly worded bit is standard. I had a Lawyer explain it to me at one time - the upshot being that you need single sentences in the claims. The wording is also VERY precise (but not normal English!) Sorry - I do not remember the exact reason for the run-on bit but it made sense at the time.
Do you know what it is that they consult on? (I assume economic issues but I have been wrong once or twice in my life.) The other idea is to do Patent work. It is somewhat interesting and fun to smash patents - there are some god-awful patents out there!
Some day I am going to need to learn how to 1) speel and B) tpye
This is so true. For short huals you can work more but over a six month period about the best you can actually work is ~50+/-5 hours. If you get above this number then the number of productive hours start droping. If you are below the number of productive hours goes up in about a linear fashion with hours worked. Kind of like a pyramid. As a point - the Japanese "work" ~12 hours per day 6.5 days per week. BUT they never seem to do much while there. The French seem like they never have to go to work - yet when they are there, they are really productive. Yes, I know that this is a little bit of a generalization. There are people who only work productively 10 minutes a week and then there are people who seem to productively work 90 hours/week. I am talking about an average.
One thing to note is that I tell my graduate students to not stay too long and to take some vacations. This sounds strange but I want to maximize their productivity. (My advisor got mad at me once for wanting to take a vacation. We did not always see eye to eye - but my work got him tenure and me a PhD - so it was not all bad for either of us.)
Where are those firms? I have a PhD in Physics - and have taught EE for years at a 'research' university. I know the math like the back of my hand - and I am getting to the point in my life I might be interested in a change.