Speaking from personal experience in manufacturing, there are a lot of things that have to go right to get something like a die shrink to work.
Say you have a photoresist chemical that supports patterning a 10% smaller pattern. In the lithography step, you also need an exposure tool with good enough overlay to pattern these smaller layers on top of each other without too much of a shift. Then you need to develop the pattern and rinse away the exposed (or unexposed) photoresist, which you as a manufacturer may be on your own to figure out a process to do, and you need to do it with a new photoresist chemical and do it more cleanly than you did it before.
Now you need to get a more consistent etch depth, because with smaller features, they are probably thinner too.
Along with this, your deposition and polish tolerances need to be improved, and everything in your process needs to be cleaner because some foreign matter defects which may have been small enough to not matter before are big enough to matter now.
There are so many processes that all have to be improved on the manufacturing side for each technology node, that a huge step is technically infeasible. Even if you make a huge jump in the manufacturability of one process, you have several others that all need to catch up.
I had a teacher once to whom I mentioned the word "Linux." He said, "Oh, that's the new version of Windows, right?" That was 6 years ago, but we still might be able to fool people. Maybe it needs to be suggested more as a Windows *competitor* than a Windows *alternative.*
I'd credit Bill Nye with being one of the first to make science funny. Maybe he wasn't as good as this guy, but I always appreciated the dry humor as a kid.
What if there were a wheel with the alphabet laid out around it, so that you would pick the letter from around the wheel, instead of scrolling through letters? I realize this is a joke, but I didn't realize it at first, and thought "what could you do with such a thing?"
The keyboard in fact is difficult and slow for some people (especially those not brought up in the computer age,) so could there be a faster way for them to type? I'm not saying a wheel is the answer, but considering other possibilities as well as a keyboard might not be a bad idea.
If you're looking for basic oscilloscope and function generator applications, and some analysis, you might want to check out the Mobile Studio project: http://www.mobilestudioproject.com/
I think it would at least be decent for students to play around with in a lab, and pretty cheap (about $150). If you're looking for serious lab tools, I suppose you might want something more high-end...
I trust you entirely on the iTunes DRM front, but isn't the Windows Vista DRM integrated with the audio drivers? Or the USB drivers perhaps? If it's part of the USB driver, could that cause issues when a device that functions as a Mass Storage Device is connected? I know I've had issues transferring protected WMA's to other devices, so perhaps the DRM is integrated into the USB system...
Well if you assume there's a profit margin, that's an expensive increase in price.
However, on most consoles the manufacturers lose money per every console sold. The profit comes from the games which are (aside from the one-time cost of the development) incredibly inexpensive to make; I would assume less than a dollar each. I wouldn't expect it to raise the price much, if any. I would also assume that the production price will go down after a while. I'm personally not going to worry much about a price increase.
I can see this being semi-practical if one could use it as a web server. If you could use mysql/PHP on it, it would really be quite nice. If only it had a built in network port and some kind of power supply that would enable you to plug it into the wall, it'd make a great server to log into while you're away.
A larger amount of memory/hard drive would also make this a better possibility, but I would imagine it will be relatively easy to hack.
"You can buy your kid a desktop computer during the middle school years, and upgrade it occassionally until the kid gets to high school or college and needs (or wants) a laptop or a faster gaming machine."
I think that is the best approach. Through saving up a lot of money from allowance, birthday, and Christmas, I bought my own computer (a cheap Dell refurb) back in 6th grade. This may have been a bit too early, but that's when I started getting assignments that I desired or had to type.
I got a really good deal on a laptop through a family member while in 8th grade, and it was very nice, but not very upgradable, and is now nearly outdated (I'm going into 11th grade this fall.)
Last summer however, I bought some parts and frankensteined myself a computer with a lot of old parts I had, and have since upgraded it into a very nice machine.
I believe a computer is handy to have from about 6th grade on. Maybe not necessarily a personal one, but at least a shared one among the family (my brother's been using that one for years.) I think it should be decent to good, or at least upgradable, so if the child chooses, they can pay for their own upgrades/games. The child must know how to use it responsibly however, and not play too many games. Should they have to pay for them, I would imagine this would require a significant work effort anyway. And if you're wondering about how I do in school, I'm the typical geek with an average of 96 or better across the past 4 years.
I have a similar case here... I'm only in 10th grade, yet I'm almost definately in the top 10, if not in the top 5 of my class of a few hundred (last quarter's average was a 97 I believe.) And get this, I have 4 computers... personally. My family also has one and there's an old 233Mhz hanging around somewhere which my younger brother used to use. I have an IBM laptop - (the "work" computer), a 566Mhz Dell Dimension, an SGI O2 (got it off of eBay,) and a computer that I built myself this past summer with an Athlon 64 3500+. I'm not too much of a gamer, but I spend a large deal of time on my computers, be it tinkering with them or looking at the new headlines on Slashdot. If there's exceptions to the rule, then it's not much of a rule, and trend will probably be that one way or another, the rule will be broken down at the point at which it's exceptions outweigh it's value of correctness.
Don't forget to check the source... There's a link on the page for a UFO crash that "happened" in 1908 and they're just finding and researching it now... Reliable source? I think not.
You could use two panes of glass and put the coating in between the two. This would allow for better insulation and would also protect the coating from being dissolved by acid rain and the like. The article also mentioned titanium dioxide(?) to fix the substances together.
My team (Albany High and RPI) is also at the National Competition. We took the Rookie All Star award at the New England Regionals. We're on the Galileo field, but I must say we're not doing too well. Congrats to everyone that made it there. For those that don't know, the matches are 2 minutes long, with the first 15 seconds autonomous. The next 1:45 primarily involves the robot pushing robots to the shooter on the team, which are shot into either a moveable or stationary goal for 5 points each, or latching onto the 10 foot high chin up bar for 50 pts. The large yellow 2x balls may be placed by the robot on tof of the goals to double the points scored by the balls in that goal. http://www.ahs.albany.k12.ny.us/AHS/clubs/r obotics/index.html
"Belgium," said Arthur. "Raaaaaarrrchchchchch!" screeched the pterodacyl. "Grrruuuuuuyyyghhhh," agreed the seven-toed sloth. ~Life, The Universe and Everything
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Speaking from personal experience in manufacturing, there are a lot of things that have to go right to get something like a die shrink to work. Say you have a photoresist chemical that supports patterning a 10% smaller pattern. In the lithography step, you also need an exposure tool with good enough overlay to pattern these smaller layers on top of each other without too much of a shift. Then you need to develop the pattern and rinse away the exposed (or unexposed) photoresist, which you as a manufacturer may be on your own to figure out a process to do, and you need to do it with a new photoresist chemical and do it more cleanly than you did it before. Now you need to get a more consistent etch depth, because with smaller features, they are probably thinner too. Along with this, your deposition and polish tolerances need to be improved, and everything in your process needs to be cleaner because some foreign matter defects which may have been small enough to not matter before are big enough to matter now. There are so many processes that all have to be improved on the manufacturing side for each technology node, that a huge step is technically infeasible. Even if you make a huge jump in the manufacturability of one process, you have several others that all need to catch up.
Maybe we're all living in a microverse battery! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They must have switched to goats after the GNU Hurd ran away...
I had a teacher once to whom I mentioned the word "Linux." He said, "Oh, that's the new version of Windows, right?" That was 6 years ago, but we still might be able to fool people. Maybe it needs to be suggested more as a Windows *competitor* than a Windows *alternative.*
I'd credit Bill Nye with being one of the first to make science funny. Maybe he wasn't as good as this guy, but I always appreciated the dry humor as a kid.
Science rules!
What if there were a wheel with the alphabet laid out around it, so that you would pick the letter from around the wheel, instead of scrolling through letters? I realize this is a joke, but I didn't realize it at first, and thought "what could you do with such a thing?" The keyboard in fact is difficult and slow for some people (especially those not brought up in the computer age,) so could there be a faster way for them to type? I'm not saying a wheel is the answer, but considering other possibilities as well as a keyboard might not be a bad idea.
If you're looking for basic oscilloscope and function generator applications, and some analysis, you might want to check out the Mobile Studio project: http://www.mobilestudioproject.com/ I think it would at least be decent for students to play around with in a lab, and pretty cheap (about $150). If you're looking for serious lab tools, I suppose you might want something more high-end...
I trust you entirely on the iTunes DRM front, but isn't the Windows Vista DRM integrated with the audio drivers? Or the USB drivers perhaps? If it's part of the USB driver, could that cause issues when a device that functions as a Mass Storage Device is connected? I know I've had issues transferring protected WMA's to other devices, so perhaps the DRM is integrated into the USB system...
Well if you assume there's a profit margin, that's an expensive increase in price. However, on most consoles the manufacturers lose money per every console sold. The profit comes from the games which are (aside from the one-time cost of the development) incredibly inexpensive to make; I would assume less than a dollar each. I wouldn't expect it to raise the price much, if any. I would also assume that the production price will go down after a while. I'm personally not going to worry much about a price increase.
A larger amount of memory/hard drive would also make this a better possibility, but I would imagine it will be relatively easy to hack.
"You can buy your kid a desktop computer during the middle school years, and upgrade it occassionally until the kid gets to high school or college and needs (or wants) a laptop or a faster gaming machine." I think that is the best approach. Through saving up a lot of money from allowance, birthday, and Christmas, I bought my own computer (a cheap Dell refurb) back in 6th grade. This may have been a bit too early, but that's when I started getting assignments that I desired or had to type. I got a really good deal on a laptop through a family member while in 8th grade, and it was very nice, but not very upgradable, and is now nearly outdated (I'm going into 11th grade this fall.) Last summer however, I bought some parts and frankensteined myself a computer with a lot of old parts I had, and have since upgraded it into a very nice machine. I believe a computer is handy to have from about 6th grade on. Maybe not necessarily a personal one, but at least a shared one among the family (my brother's been using that one for years.) I think it should be decent to good, or at least upgradable, so if the child chooses, they can pay for their own upgrades/games. The child must know how to use it responsibly however, and not play too many games. Should they have to pay for them, I would imagine this would require a significant work effort anyway. And if you're wondering about how I do in school, I'm the typical geek with an average of 96 or better across the past 4 years.
Sure, but you know what they say about engine size, and how it compares (inversely) to the size of your... you know?
There is a bathroom icon actually, it's a bathtub though. Check the demo, it's like the last icon they show.
I have a similar case here... I'm only in 10th grade, yet I'm almost definately in the top 10, if not in the top 5 of my class of a few hundred (last quarter's average was a 97 I believe.) And get this, I have 4 computers... personally. My family also has one and there's an old 233Mhz hanging around somewhere which my younger brother used to use. I have an IBM laptop - (the "work" computer), a 566Mhz Dell Dimension, an SGI O2 (got it off of eBay,) and a computer that I built myself this past summer with an Athlon 64 3500+. I'm not too much of a gamer, but I spend a large deal of time on my computers, be it tinkering with them or looking at the new headlines on Slashdot. If there's exceptions to the rule, then it's not much of a rule, and trend will probably be that one way or another, the rule will be broken down at the point at which it's exceptions outweigh it's value of correctness.
I have to ask... if it runs Java,
Can it run Linux?
Once upon a time, Apple mad an x86 OS called Rhapsody:d _apples_rhapsody/
http://toastytech.com/guis/rhap.html
And it died ca. 1997:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/11/05/who_kille
Don't forget to check the source... There's a link on the page for a UFO crash that "happened" in 1908 and they're just finding and researching it now... Reliable source? I think not.
Sorry, misread the parent... Realized I basically said the same thing :\
You could use two panes of glass and put the coating in between the two. This would allow for better insulation and would also protect the coating from being dissolved by acid rain and the like. The article also mentioned titanium dioxide(?) to fix the substances together.
Sorry, just realized the redundancy :(
How about running OS X on PearPC in that 98 emluation? It could happen if you got a 4GB Multimedia Card...
My team (Albany High and RPI) is also at the National Competition. We took the Rookie All Star award at the New England Regionals. We're on the Galileo field, but I must say we're not doing too well. Congrats to everyone that made it there.r obotics /index.html
For those that don't know, the matches are 2 minutes long, with the first 15 seconds autonomous. The next 1:45 primarily involves the robot pushing robots to the shooter on the team, which are shot into either a moveable or stationary goal for 5 points each, or latching onto the 10 foot high chin up bar for 50 pts. The large yellow 2x balls may be placed by the robot on tof of the goals to double the points scored by the balls in that goal.
http://www.ahs.albany.k12.ny.us/AHS/clubs/
So that's why Google's been so slow... The Israelis stole the pigeons! google.com
"Belgium," said Arthur.
"Raaaaaarrrchchchchch!" screeched the pterodacyl.
"Grrruuuuuuyyyghhhh," agreed the seven-toed sloth.
~Life, The Universe and Everything