That's because Intel is years ahead of the other foundries and has been for some time. The spend countless billions a year on their fab processes.
Per Intel's January 2012 earnings report, their plan for this year is:
Capital spending: $12.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million
R&D spending: approximately $10.1 billion.
Which, compared to the size of my bank account, is "countless":)
Perhaps they use a legal/union standard for their math -- 2 hour minimum for each interruption.
Me, I get paid to get the job done. If my brain starts writing an email at 10:30 pm, I'm happy to get out of bed and type it up. Saves me the need to remember to write it the next morning, and I get turn-around from others because my message is the latest in their inbox. This willingness to work on something for a tad after dinner or late at night means I go home at a normal predictable hour, see my family and spend good time with them, and have the freedom to flex my schedule.
Disclaimer: I work for a big company that values work-life balance in practice and still pays competitive wages. Your employer may vary.
Mod Parent Up. I have friends who've been waiting to adopt for years now. It's only bureaucratic red tape (that checks out potential adoptees as though they were candidates for Catholic sainthood) which has kept them from adopting. They work good/.-worthy high-tech well-paying jobs, live in a big house in one of the most expensive parts of town, and still can't get a kid to care for.
I think you elaborated a neat perspective about the difference between the two groups. Then you left me hanging with your perspective. If newborn babies are no different from a fetus -- "blank and have no individuality" and "just a collection of cells" -- when do we become human from your point of view? Is it arbitrary, or measurable, and by what standard?
If I had a dollar for each student who "just borrowed" a line or two from other papers or other sources, I wouldn't be a teacher anymore, I'd have a self-funded space program.
Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please "research" [1]
[1] Paraphrased from Tom Lehrer's song 'Lobachevsky'.
To copy from one person is plagiarism. To copy from many is research. (citation not provided; quote is attrib. to various sources)
My belief is that the suffering through college calculus, has helped me build the toolsets to understanding the data, identifying the normal and outlier behaviors and then determining what are the probable causes and solutions.
Interesting indeed. College calculus has trained you in statistics.
This is not a dig at you -- I just find this connexion of input and output fascinating, and wonder how common it is.
Mod Parent Up. I have but one lifetime -- and someone out there wants me to spend it all on learning Esperanto.
The older I get, the more I become aware just how much we collectively know -- and how little of it I will have time to learn, apply, and teach others. Rather than follow along in real-time with the Mars story, I'll wait for the uninformed talking heads to move on to some other story because "Mars is old now." I'll read the intelligent executive summary after the research is completed.
Democratic Decision Making -- no, it's not possible for a nation of 300 million. But try attending a town meeting in New Hampshire. They believe in democratic decisions, and much of the town will turn up to discuss and vote. (depending on the town, your math may vary). Their State House of Representatives has 400 elected members -- one for every 3000 residents. That's like having 100,000 people in Congress. (pause, shudder) This is the root of our American political system -- democracy at the lowest levels and a representative republic at higher levels.
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Saw that movie last week. The footage is awe-inspiring but the text of the script leaves some serious fact-checking to be desired. At one point, it says that towns sprang up only 600 years ago. It also claims that matter and water are two separate things, and they connect with the air and the sun. Perhaps the text was accurate in Aristotelian times, but not now.
And not only ending up in your mail box, but also having your name and address on the envelope. ie It was correctly delivered according to the sender's instructions.
IANAL and other disclaimers. But his name was not on the envelope. He caught every piece of mail that came to his domain. Here's a more true parallel: I bought a house, which has a defined postal address. Other people used to live here and so mail comes to their name at this address. Do I get to open their mail? No I sure as hell do not. If they address it to "Occupant" or to "Person XYZ or Current Resident" then I am entitled to access it. Otherwise, since the sellers didn't give me a good forwarding address, it's "Return to sender -- addressee unknown." Since he admitted he intended to create a confusing situation, the only mail he should have accessed was anything to wesley.kenzie@lockheedmarton.com or securikai@lockheedmarton.com, or other names such as he regularly went by -- and not robert.j.stevens@lockheedmarton.com or nolan.d.archibald@lockheedmartun.com.
I know USAns are terrible at metric system, but skewing the prefix by 6 orders of magnitude is just plain stupid. To make it easier for you USAns it's 450nm or 177nin (nanoinches, not Nine Inch Nails).
Incorrect. It is 450 millimeters (mm) in diameter. This translates to an approximately 18 inch diameter wafer. And that is huge. It needs completely new tools and materials handlers to be designed and tested; you can't just upsize the existing things, especially given the drive to decrease the thickness of wafers, thus increasing their fragility.
You haven't provided enough info to argue that the Nazis were Christian. "God with us" -- every monotheistic religion could say that (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc.). And no form of Christianity holds that you can become the Messiah -- so if Adolph started wanting that, it wasn't a "more extreme form of Christianity," it was a rejection of Christianity and a pure power grab.
... compared with the random office noises around you, a reliable predictable set of stimuli is easier to tune out. Music is almost white noise when contrasted with folks taking loud phone calls about medical problems, unattended phones ringing at their desks, and so on.
Neither can my one-year-old. But he's learned that anything in matte black or silver with buttons or a screen is a wonderful thing. We gave him a spare remote control and spare keyboard so we could use ours unhindered without just having to shut him down every time he wanted to be like us and use the cool toys. He still knows there's a difference between his and ours, but he's more accepting, and that means I can introduce him to tech while maintaining my desired limits.
Why not turn Hubble directly towards Venus as it does its transit? Is there just too much light for Hubble to get a good spectrographic reading by doing it directly? if so, how will this help us when looking at exoplanet atmospheres, since we will be directly looking at their atmospheres as they have transits in front of bright stars as well?
There is way too much light to look directly at it, since the Hubble would have to be pointed at the sun to do this. Other stars and other planets are much further away, so their light will be dim enough to be safe to point at.
If you want to see the transit of Venus from Earth, you'll need to be wearing special solar glasses that blot out everything but the sun itself. Unless we put a big solar filter on the Hubble, we can't point it at the sun.
And total taxes were above 90% on the wealthy in the 1950's.
The peak was 92% on income over $400,000 per year in 1952.
That was too far in one direction. But 17% is too far in the other direction.
Just for accuracy's sake, the 90% and the 17% are different types of info. The 90% is a marginal rate (for the remaining income above $400,000). The 17% is an total aka average (for all income, including what was below $400,000). Using the CPI as one measure of inflation, $400,000 in 1950 is almost $4 million today. Finally, there were more tax loopholes and tax shelters back then (for individuals at least), so that folks who earned a lot could avoid paying massive taxes by setting up "Foundations" and "Trusts" and other sorts of investments that allowed them to reduce their taxable income. Tax law is complex, and absurd situations like what Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others do is just one more argument to me for a greatly simplified flat tax structure for both individuals and businesses.
They are also closed for significant periods around Passover (Pesach) and other Jewish Holy Days. I give B&H props for disclosing fully when they have different prices for grey-market (priced for International sales and without USA warranties/rebates) from domestic products.
Having been to Manzanar and Dachau, I can say they are dramatically different. Manzanar had no break-you-down exercises like "Move all the rocks to the west side of the camp today. And move them back to the east side tomorrow." Manzanar permitted those interned to practice their faith. And the only ovens at Manzanar cooked food.
Of 11,000 people who were relocated to Manzanar, only 146 died in 4 years, 0.25%/year. Official records for Dachau are 206,206 prisoners and 31,951 deaths over its 12 years of operation, but those records have problems.
I hoped, by visiting Dachau, to come to a greater understanding of why Germany played mind-games and death-games with its prisoners, while America was content with simply isolating Japanese-Americans. I didn't. The displays and presentations at Dachau offer no insight into what drove the barbaric actions of the Nazis, and offers no lessons on how to prevent it from recurring. Only the memorials erected there offer hope with their charges of "Never Forget."
I agree they're not hard technically to fix. They are hard logistically. When there's one hole, you have to divert traffic from that lane for a period of time. You then need several pieces of heavy equipment to grind the surrounding road in order to make a rough surface for adhesion, heat and apply the asphalt mix, flatten it into place, and finally replace any damaged road striping. And if that pothole is seen by 100,000 people in a week, that's a lot of cars you inconvenience while doing your fix, so they'll get annoyed if you just plop down and fix a pothole that you find without putting out signs for a week that you'll be doing construction and they should find an alternate route. You're right that cities make other items higher priorities -- in some places it's transit, in other places it's exorbitant retirement pensions -- because you don't get voted into City Hall on the basis of potholes.
The math is wrong here. If I donate $1,000 to a church or to any other charity and deduct it on my taxes, I reduce my taxable income by $1,000 but income tax is only a portion of my taxable income, not 100%. Otherwise I'd be flat broke. Permanently. Think about it. So if I itemize deductions, I will reduce my tax bill by somewhere between $100 and $400, depending on how much I earn and where I live (in Manhattan, there's even a local income tax; some states have no income tax). So that still means that I gave between 60% and 90% of that $1,000 to that organization. It is not majority government funded.
Which is why the other part of the judgment is equally important: The court should not be locating the deep pockets just so that the plaintiff can take the settlement private.
It's great to hear that a judge has said no to these folks, but given the number of other cases they have filed, I suspect they'll just try a different courtroom next. Per the Judge's decision,
"According to this court’s research, at the time of the hearing 69 mass copyright infringement cases had been filed in this district. Of those, plaintiff obtained early discovery in 57 cases and issued subpoenas to obtain subscriber information for more than 18,000 IP addresses."
This one case is probably just a hiccup to these trolls, unless a lot of people get a lot of positive legal publicity for this ruling.
I have a Bible that has over 2200 pages. It gets cited all over the place -- in academic journals, popular culture, and more. It is based on nearly four hundred years of study and translation in English alone, plus centuries of effort in other languages. Parts of it have been studied for thousands of years by millions of people and yet still over half of Slashdot does not believe its key points, and even purposely engages in shouting matches, trolling and mocking people rather than have reasoned discussions that seek to establish truth. So why should Anthropogenic Global Warming, with its priests and its commandments, be any different?
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That's because Intel is years ahead of the other foundries and has been for some time. The spend countless billions a year on their fab processes.
Per Intel's January 2012 earnings report, their plan for this year is:
Capital spending: $12.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million
R&D spending: approximately $10.1 billion.
Which, compared to the size of my bank account, is "countless" :)
Perhaps they use a legal/union standard for their math -- 2 hour minimum for each interruption.
Me, I get paid to get the job done. If my brain starts writing an email at 10:30 pm, I'm happy to get out of bed and type it up. Saves me the need to remember to write it the next morning, and I get turn-around from others because my message is the latest in their inbox. This willingness to work on something for a tad after dinner or late at night means I go home at a normal predictable hour, see my family and spend good time with them, and have the freedom to flex my schedule.
Disclaimer: I work for a big company that values work-life balance in practice and still pays competitive wages. Your employer may vary.
Mod Parent Up. I have friends who've been waiting to adopt for years now. It's only bureaucratic red tape (that checks out potential adoptees as though they were candidates for Catholic sainthood) which has kept them from adopting. They work good /.-worthy high-tech well-paying jobs, live in a big house in one of the most expensive parts of town, and still can't get a kid to care for.
I think you elaborated a neat perspective about the difference between the two groups. Then you left me hanging with your perspective. If newborn babies are no different from a fetus -- "blank and have no individuality" and "just a collection of cells" -- when do we become human from your point of view? Is it arbitrary, or measurable, and by what standard?
If I had a dollar for each student who "just borrowed" a line or two from other papers or other sources, I wouldn't be a teacher anymore, I'd have a self-funded space program.
Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please "research" [1]
[1] Paraphrased from Tom Lehrer's song 'Lobachevsky'.
To copy from one person is plagiarism. To copy from many is research. (citation not provided; quote is attrib. to various sources)
My belief is that the suffering through college calculus, has helped me build the toolsets to understanding the data, identifying the normal and outlier behaviors and then determining what are the probable causes and solutions.
Interesting indeed. College calculus has trained you in statistics.
This is not a dig at you -- I just find this connexion of input and output fascinating, and wonder how common it is.
Don't forget to paint numbers on your three cats: 1, 2, and 4.
Mod Parent Up. I have but one lifetime -- and someone out there wants me to spend it all on learning Esperanto.
The older I get, the more I become aware just how much we collectively know -- and how little of it I will have time to learn, apply, and teach others. Rather than follow along in real-time with the Mars story, I'll wait for the uninformed talking heads to move on to some other story because "Mars is old now." I'll read the intelligent executive summary after the research is completed.
Democratic Decision Making -- no, it's not possible for a nation of 300 million. But try attending a town meeting in New Hampshire. They believe in democratic decisions, and much of the town will turn up to discuss and vote. (depending on the town, your math may vary). Their State House of Representatives has 400 elected members -- one for every 3000 residents. That's like having 100,000 people in Congress. (pause, shudder) This is the root of our American political system -- democracy at the lowest levels and a representative republic at higher levels.
Saw that movie last week. The footage is awe-inspiring but the text of the script leaves some serious fact-checking to be desired. At one point, it says that towns sprang up only 600 years ago. It also claims that matter and water are two separate things, and they connect with the air and the sun. Perhaps the text was accurate in Aristotelian times, but not now.
And not only ending up in your mail box, but also having your name and address on the envelope. ie It was correctly delivered according to the sender's instructions.
IANAL and other disclaimers. But his name was not on the envelope. He caught every piece of mail that came to his domain. Here's a more true parallel: I bought a house, which has a defined postal address. Other people used to live here and so mail comes to their name at this address. Do I get to open their mail? No I sure as hell do not. If they address it to "Occupant" or to "Person XYZ or Current Resident" then I am entitled to access it. Otherwise, since the sellers didn't give me a good forwarding address, it's "Return to sender -- addressee unknown." Since he admitted he intended to create a confusing situation, the only mail he should have accessed was anything to wesley.kenzie@lockheedmarton.com or securikai@lockheedmarton.com, or other names such as he regularly went by -- and not robert.j.stevens@lockheedmarton.com or nolan.d.archibald@lockheedmartun.com.
I know USAns are terrible at metric system, but skewing the prefix by 6 orders of magnitude is just plain stupid. To make it easier for you USAns it's 450nm or 177nin (nanoinches, not Nine Inch Nails).
Incorrect. It is 450 millimeters (mm) in diameter. This translates to an approximately 18 inch diameter wafer. And that is huge. It needs completely new tools and materials handlers to be designed and tested; you can't just upsize the existing things, especially given the drive to decrease the thickness of wafers, thus increasing their fragility.
You haven't provided enough info to argue that the Nazis were Christian. "God with us" -- every monotheistic religion could say that (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc.). And no form of Christianity holds that you can become the Messiah -- so if Adolph started wanting that, it wasn't a "more extreme form of Christianity," it was a rejection of Christianity and a pure power grab.
... compared with the random office noises around you, a reliable predictable set of stimuli is easier to tune out. Music is almost white noise when contrasted with folks taking loud phone calls about medical problems, unattended phones ringing at their desks, and so on.
Neither can my one-year-old. But he's learned that anything in matte black or silver with buttons or a screen is a wonderful thing. We gave him a spare remote control and spare keyboard so we could use ours unhindered without just having to shut him down every time he wanted to be like us and use the cool toys. He still knows there's a difference between his and ours, but he's more accepting, and that means I can introduce him to tech while maintaining my desired limits.
Why not turn Hubble directly towards Venus as it does its transit? Is there just too much light for Hubble to get a good spectrographic reading by doing it directly? if so, how will this help us when looking at exoplanet atmospheres, since we will be directly looking at their atmospheres as they have transits in front of bright stars as well?
There is way too much light to look directly at it, since the Hubble would have to be pointed at the sun to do this. Other stars and other planets are much further away, so their light will be dim enough to be safe to point at.
If you want to see the transit of Venus from Earth, you'll need to be wearing special solar glasses that blot out everything but the sun itself. Unless we put a big solar filter on the Hubble, we can't point it at the sun.
And total taxes were above 90% on the wealthy in the 1950's. The peak was 92% on income over $400,000 per year in 1952. That was too far in one direction. But 17% is too far in the other direction.
Just for accuracy's sake, the 90% and the 17% are different types of info. The 90% is a marginal rate (for the remaining income above $400,000). The 17% is an total aka average (for all income, including what was below $400,000). Using the CPI as one measure of inflation, $400,000 in 1950 is almost $4 million today. Finally, there were more tax loopholes and tax shelters back then (for individuals at least), so that folks who earned a lot could avoid paying massive taxes by setting up "Foundations" and "Trusts" and other sorts of investments that allowed them to reduce their taxable income. Tax law is complex, and absurd situations like what Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others do is just one more argument to me for a greatly simplified flat tax structure for both individuals and businesses.
4% each way? You really should switch to credit unions. I manage to get my money converted for a 1% fee.
They are also closed for significant periods around Passover (Pesach) and other Jewish Holy Days. I give B&H props for disclosing fully when they have different prices for grey-market (priced for International sales and without USA warranties/rebates) from domestic products.
Having been to Manzanar and Dachau, I can say they are dramatically different. Manzanar had no break-you-down exercises like "Move all the rocks to the west side of the camp today. And move them back to the east side tomorrow." Manzanar permitted those interned to practice their faith. And the only ovens at Manzanar cooked food.
Of 11,000 people who were relocated to Manzanar, only 146 died in 4 years, 0.25%/year. Official records for Dachau are 206,206 prisoners and 31,951 deaths over its 12 years of operation, but those records have problems.
I hoped, by visiting Dachau, to come to a greater understanding of why Germany played mind-games and death-games with its prisoners, while America was content with simply isolating Japanese-Americans. I didn't. The displays and presentations at Dachau offer no insight into what drove the barbaric actions of the Nazis, and offers no lessons on how to prevent it from recurring. Only the memorials erected there offer hope with their charges of "Never Forget."
That flight may have cost Delta $ by itself, but they probably needed the plane in LAX for the next day's travels.
I agree they're not hard technically to fix. They are hard logistically. When there's one hole, you have to divert traffic from that lane for a period of time. You then need several pieces of heavy equipment to grind the surrounding road in order to make a rough surface for adhesion, heat and apply the asphalt mix, flatten it into place, and finally replace any damaged road striping. And if that pothole is seen by 100,000 people in a week, that's a lot of cars you inconvenience while doing your fix, so they'll get annoyed if you just plop down and fix a pothole that you find without putting out signs for a week that you'll be doing construction and they should find an alternate route. You're right that cities make other items higher priorities -- in some places it's transit, in other places it's exorbitant retirement pensions -- because you don't get voted into City Hall on the basis of potholes.
The math is wrong here. If I donate $1,000 to a church or to any other charity and deduct it on my taxes, I reduce my taxable income by $1,000 but income tax is only a portion of my taxable income, not 100%. Otherwise I'd be flat broke. Permanently. Think about it. So if I itemize deductions, I will reduce my tax bill by somewhere between $100 and $400, depending on how much I earn and where I live (in Manhattan, there's even a local income tax; some states have no income tax). So that still means that I gave between 60% and 90% of that $1,000 to that organization. It is not majority government funded.
Which is why the other part of the judgment is equally important: The court should not be locating the deep pockets just so that the plaintiff can take the settlement private.
It's great to hear that a judge has said no to these folks, but given the number of other cases they have filed, I suspect they'll just try a different courtroom next. Per the Judge's decision,
"According to this court’s research, at the time of the hearing 69 mass copyright infringement cases had been filed in this district. Of those, plaintiff obtained early discovery in 57 cases and issued subpoenas to obtain subscriber information for more than 18,000 IP addresses."
This one case is probably just a hiccup to these trolls, unless a lot of people get a lot of positive legal publicity for this ruling.
I have a Bible that has over 2200 pages. It gets cited all over the place -- in academic journals, popular culture, and more. It is based on nearly four hundred years of study and translation in English alone, plus centuries of effort in other languages. Parts of it have been studied for thousands of years by millions of people and yet still over half of Slashdot does not believe its key points, and even purposely engages in shouting matches, trolling and mocking people rather than have reasoned discussions that seek to establish truth. So why should Anthropogenic Global Warming, with its priests and its commandments, be any different?