Diamonds have the highest conductivity rate of any known metal, which makes them perfect candidates for traditional computing. You may think "oh, but they're so expensive," but this isn't necessarily true. Natural diamonds are expensive, but this isn't due to its scarcity.
Diamonds are not a metal... and Diamonds have the highest thermal conductivity... the last thing you want here for semiconductor devices is a substrate with the highest electrical conductivity... you want a very good insulator, which also gets heat away very quickly... this is where Diamond layers come in... not solid machined diamonds, but diamond deposited or grown into a thin layer...
ever considered a two wheeled platform with a castoring wheel for the third point??? No messing around with chains unless you're into that kind of thing... Direct drive to each wheel.
I just love the smell of flamebait in the evening... Posting this article was surely setting light to the blue touch-paper and retiring to watch the show...
RMS... he cetainly polarises opinions in here... distinct lack of any middle ground from the posters...
Software can be distributed w/o charge but does not have to be 100% free. Why he insists that this is the case is only understandable by him and people that are just as warped as he can be.
Somebody here fails to understand items such as the Java trap then... and why there's such a furore about the new version of OpenOffice.org having such a dependence upon non-free Java...
the "traditional" vector for virus infection has always been the technician's floppy disk with test programs on it... now replaced by the USB key stuffed full of usefull diagnostics instead... just waiting to pick up a virus from one customer's system and walk it into another customer's system...
what I find highly amusing is the fuzzed out product placement logos when the shows get rebroadcast over here... if the sponsors haven't stumped up the money for covering the UK market, then those logos get fuzzed to avoid them being seen. Even funnier is when one logo gets replaced by one of a completely different product and only the wobbling of the replacement gives it away...
American Idol is a case in point, all those Coke logos on the glasses of the judging panel are fuzzed out, but any reflections on the table top are perfectly visible...
I can see a time coming when image manipulation technology is so good, that they can slot a product logo in seamlessly into any footage... so you could see some jarring anachronisms like a coke glass being used in A Tale of Two Cities...
people who've read a bit of "Excel for Dummies" are considered by their peers to be spreadsheet whizkids...
The way to avoid it is to insist upon proper training for all "managers" who's function includes whipping up a spreadsheet...
The problem is most of them actually consider themselves to be competent and that training is beneath them. The other problem is the assumption that because it's a computer doing the calculations, then it can't make mistakes... but mistakes in the programming in the spreadsheet itself can only be found the hard way by inspection or the use of test data for which the results are already known.
I "escaped" some 30 years ago... I'm now a grandfather and quietly counting down the days until my youngest finds her own "basement"...
Not all Linux users are 16 year olds living in the basement... You'll be surprised at how much Linux is used by older folks... ones who enjoy using their computers and not fighting plagues of viruses and trojans worming their way in through all the papered over cracks
I pity the "general masses" who haven't discovered the secret yet... and still believe the promises from Redmond that the next release will be secure...
"Jam tommorrow, never today..." well, I'm enjoying my Jam today, you can wait till tommorrow for yours...
I'm perfectly happy with Linux over here in the quiet corner... I'm just putting the finishing touches to this nice Enlightenment 17 I've installed... hmmm very nice...
erm... if that were all it was... just a conspiracy thoery... then it would be easy to dispell just by releasing the footage from all the surveillance cameras that was seized shortly after the event... after all, if there was nothing to it, then the camera footage would show a 757 hoot footing it on a collision course with the Pentagon... but then again, the conspiracy theorists would be claiming that the authorities had had plenty of time by now to doctor the footage...
analysts will not put their heads on the block and categorically state that something IS going to happen... it's always hedged with extra bumph to allow them to state that there might be a possibility of an event at some nebulous date in the future, but they have no specifics as to what it actually is or exactly when...
hard intelligence is extremely difficult to get hold of... and if you do have it, using it can give away the fact that you have it to the enemy, who will then conduct a witch-hunt to find the mole (and because of the nature of the hard intelligence it's not very difficult to find him/her) or else change their methods of operation to plug the hole.
Churchill was pilloried after the war when it was discovered that they had hard intelligence that the Luftwaffe were going to attack Coventry on a specific night... He had to keep that knowledge hidden and couldn't act upon it because it would have tipped off the Germans to the fact that we were able to read their coded messages as if they were plain text... and they would have tightened up their code procedures and we would then have lost the means to read them.
how about having a filesystem that doesn't suffer from fragmentation in the first place so you don't have to waste processor cycles defragging it!!!!!!!
we're currently having a nightmare at work with large documents created with ms-weird losing their graphics leaving big red crosses where the graphics were... I'm trying to convine the powers that be that OpenOffice does not suffer from this problem as all graphics are held separately in the file and can be pulled out individually using winzip... as long as you tell winzip to ignore the.sxw extension and treat it as a zip file.
They're worried about the cost of OOo... I've told them it is completely free, and the only cost involved is the short loss of productivity lost while everyone gets used to the new menus, and the short hassle of converting from.doc to.sxw... they had enough fun when Office 2000 came out and completely misread old word 97 docs... I've told them it's a one of time penalty on every conversion... once done, you never have further problems...
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I see I've run into some Mods with a total sense of humour failure again...
Diamonds are not a metal... and Diamonds have the highest thermal conductivity... the last thing you want here for semiconductor devices is a substrate with the highest electrical conductivity... you want a very good insulator, which also gets heat away very quickly... this is where Diamond layers come in... not solid machined diamonds, but diamond deposited or grown into a thin layer...
ever considered a two wheeled platform with a castoring wheel for the third point??? No messing around with chains unless you're into that kind of thing... Direct drive to each wheel.
I always wondered what happened to him... looks like he's been very busy at the shredders again...
RMS... he cetainly polarises opinions in here... distinct lack of any middle ground from the posters...
or you could have LGX... LiGnuX with a silent G
Somebody here fails to understand items such as the Java trap then... and why there's such a furore about the new version of OpenOffice.org having such a dependence upon non-free Java...
warning... reader failed to parse winking smiley... please redo from start... ;p
Now you're showing your ignorance... he wrote EMACS... what else would he use... durrr... ;)
Now let's get back to actually working on this replacement...
4) They even cite Gnome and KDE as prior art in their patent application for a pager... complete with screenshots...
the "traditional" vector for virus infection has always been the technician's floppy disk with test programs on it... now replaced by the USB key stuffed full of usefull diagnostics instead... just waiting to pick up a virus from one customer's system and walk it into another customer's system...
American Idol is a case in point, all those Coke logos on the glasses of the judging panel are fuzzed out, but any reflections on the table top are perfectly visible...
I can see a time coming when image manipulation technology is so good, that they can slot a product logo in seamlessly into any footage... so you could see some jarring anachronisms like a coke glass being used in A Tale of Two Cities...
The way to avoid it is to insist upon proper training for all "managers" who's function includes whipping up a spreadsheet...
The problem is most of them actually consider themselves to be competent and that training is beneath them. The other problem is the assumption that because it's a computer doing the calculations, then it can't make mistakes... but mistakes in the programming in the spreadsheet itself can only be found the hard way by inspection or the use of test data for which the results are already known.
Not all Linux users are 16 year olds living in the basement... You'll be surprised at how much Linux is used by older folks... ones who enjoy using their computers and not fighting plagues of viruses and trojans worming their way in through all the papered over cracks
I pity the "general masses" who haven't discovered the secret yet... and still believe the promises from Redmond that the next release will be secure...
"Jam tommorrow, never today..." well, I'm enjoying my Jam today, you can wait till tommorrow for yours...
I'm perfectly happy with Linux over here in the quiet corner... I'm just putting the finishing touches to this nice Enlightenment 17 I've installed... hmmm very nice...
Mirrordot faithfully reproduced the exact same message... Fatal error: out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer() in Unknown on line 0
erm... if that were all it was... just a conspiracy thoery... then it would be easy to dispell just by releasing the footage from all the surveillance cameras that was seized shortly after the event... after all, if there was nothing to it, then the camera footage would show a 757 hoot footing it on a collision course with the Pentagon... but then again, the conspiracy theorists would be claiming that the authorities had had plenty of time by now to doctor the footage...
hard intelligence is extremely difficult to get hold of... and if you do have it, using it can give away the fact that you have it to the enemy, who will then conduct a witch-hunt to find the mole (and because of the nature of the hard intelligence it's not very difficult to find him/her) or else change their methods of operation to plug the hole.
Churchill was pilloried after the war when it was discovered that they had hard intelligence that the Luftwaffe were going to attack Coventry on a specific night... He had to keep that knowledge hidden and couldn't act upon it because it would have tipped off the Germans to the fact that we were able to read their coded messages as if they were plain text... and they would have tightened up their code procedures and we would then have lost the means to read them.
I have never, ever understood why anyone would ever want to have sex with a sheep... they're absolutely filthy...
how about having a filesystem that doesn't suffer from fragmentation in the first place so you don't have to waste processor cycles defragging it!!!!!!!
we're currently having a nightmare at work with large documents created with ms-weird losing their graphics leaving big red crosses where the graphics were... I'm trying to convine the powers that be that OpenOffice does not suffer from this problem as all graphics are held separately in the file and can be pulled out individually using winzip... as long as you tell winzip to ignore the .sxw extension and treat it as a zip file.
They're worried about the cost of OOo... I've told them it is completely free, and the only cost involved is the short loss of productivity lost while everyone gets used to the new menus, and the short hassle of converting from .doc to .sxw... they had enough fun when Office 2000 came out and completely misread old word 97 docs... I've told them it's a one of time penalty on every conversion... once done, you never have further problems...
Ubuntu master wizard... I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy... howdy... it works... and it works well. :)
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Now let's get back to troll smashing...
Especially as he got those magazines for free as they were being chucked out by his local library back in the early 1970's...
Didn't two high ranking execs from Sun and Microsoft have a round of golf together shortly before the "settlement"???