it's more like an old idea come back to haunt us:-) this idea has been around for quite a while (like since the 60s). On the other hand people have been doing this stuff in the mainstream morerecently (the x86 recompilers to Sparc/Alpha, Java JIT, Transmeta etc are all modern examples of this basic idea)
but probably more complex than just "my keyboard made my wrists hurt" - I know I was typing for 15 years before my tendonitis kicked in and I had to wear a wrist brace for 5 years more. On the other hand I'm pretty sure that the thing that kicked off my pain was not typing - but having kids and all the lifting and bouncing etc involved.... getting a laptop seemed to be the thing that finally fixed it for me - maybe not just because of the less stressfull angle that I hold my wrists at but also because I use a traditional keyboard a bit as well which means I have lots of different ways to work
they either have to be in LEO to be able to be delivered quickly, in which they need a big reserve of fuel to stop their orbit decaying to quiockly, and when the fuel runs out they eventually will rain down upon you anyway. Or they are put in a high orbit in which case they deploy slowly and need a lot of fuel to bring them down..... and eventually they rain on your grandkids....
Neither stops the bozo with the FAE bomb (or biotoxin, or satchel nuke) in front of your govt building, or on a boat coming into NY harbor
edge effect and RC delays are in the wires (Al/Cu), not the Si - speeding it up isn't going to speed up the interconnect.
I must admit I only read the press release link which only refers to '35%' not '70%' - 35% is reasonable from 70% if you assume that delays are evenly shared between gates and nets - of course my experience is that while that's true for most paths the ones that come and bite you are the long nets that are mostly RC
It used to be that silicon speedups like this were a really big deal - sadly at today's geometries wire speed is as important, or more important than silicon speeds.
These days even process shrinks don't give use the speedups they used to (edge effects, RC delays and all that) - however everylittle bit helps - 35% faster silicon probably means 10% faster chips overall - what we really need is a new way to do interconnect - lasers? room temp superconductors? quantum comunications ["I put a cat in my box I don't know if it's dead why don't you check to see if there's any food missing at your end?":-]? esp? etc etc
you don't say how old they are so it's a bit difficult, also it probably depends whether you have each kid for a week or all 4.... I've done some volunteering in inner-city high-schools but take the following with a grain of salt:
Teach them how to access the web - show them some content they might want to come back to (music/culture pages are good) use this to explain a URL and what it means
get them to set up hotmail accounts - get them to send mail to each other (a great way to learn typing)
borrow some digital cameras - go on a day trip somewhere - have them take photos, come back and use them as a basis for learning simple web page design - write a report of the trip
now use the same photos to tell another completely different story - use that to talk about using things out of context - what is reality? - how to be skeptical, maybe segue into something about online safety, anonymity, how people aren't always what they seem etc etc
your budget probably doesn't extend to Lego Mindstorms/Robolab... pity it's a great way to introduce programming
Where I grew up (which shall rename nameless) the local utility used tones sent thru the power mains to turn on/off things like street lights and electric hot water heaters/storage heaters during peak times (this was really low tech using reed-relays) - it was also annoying - they would come thru your stereo too.
Anyway for a lark a friend of mine built this humungo tone generator and connected it to his house mains.... then in the wee hours of the morning used it to send morse across town.... by turning on and off all the street lights in his neighborhood....
is basicly what Felton is trying to say (or "SDMI isn't") - but when he tried to say that he was threatened with law suits by the emperor's flunkies - of course no one in a position of power wants to hear this sort of stuff - denial can be very easy.
However reality is different - we now have a reliable, cheap, decentralized mechanism for moving information around - the RIAA is redundant - the asteroid has landed and we mammals just need to run around and make sure we don't get crushed by falling dinosaurs
First we get mad when MS calls us a 'cancer'. Then we call MS an evil, unkillable menace.
But Frankenstein's monstor was a lovable misunderstood freak who turned on it's tormentors.... however I agree with you MS is evil, whether it's unkillable remains to be seen
John Perry Barlow... net luminary gives a more encompassing spiel on this history - but he goes back to pre-printing press days... think of the middle ages there were 2 sorts of music - 'street music' stuff people sung together and was passed from person to person, or maybe played by a minstrel for tips - popular songs were there because people liked to sing them - and no one would consider owning them. The other sort became today's classical music - big stuff created by someone under the patronage of wealth with enormous resources (could afford an orchestra - something one needed to make loud sound before the invention of the amplifier in the 20th cent) - again one didn't copyright one's music - but then it couldn't be reproduced by the person on the street.
Our modern day concept of owned music is a result of the sheet music industry - which needed a ubiquitous instrument and players (ie the piano).
Anyway in human history owned music is a blip on the time-scale of things - maybe 150 years at most - who's to say it will stay that way for ever, the circle may well turn and popular music will be owned by the people again - it might mean that musicians may not be able to make billions (or the illusion of billions) of $$ but we might get more cool music and less manufactured crap
Their press release claims they comtinue with normal style routing on M1-M3 (so people can continue to use their existing cell libraries - this means that the raw gates will NOT run any faster - gate layout is usually done in M1 and a bit of M2 and the silicon below). What they are proposing is a better long wire routing (it seems they rotate the M4/M5 grid by 45 degrees - and that's what those upper layers are usually used for) which is a good thing since wire loads are what's currently killing us in timing - theorretically (best case) you can get a sqrt(2) drop in R and another in C (for a product of 2x speed up in wire delays) when you replace 2 wires with their diagonal - not all wires are going to be perfect 45 degree replacements. Also I suspect there's asome problems with getting the 2 grids to line up - I bet there are limitations on where vias can poke thru.
What I am skeptical about is that it means a whole new routing infrastructure - not just new routing tools (which I guess is what they are really selling) but also 3d extraction tools, timing infrastructure, DRC etc etc getting all of this working from all the different vendors and getting it to work together is NOT going to be easy
Elron Hubbard.... he just kept cranking them out for years after his death.... probably something to do with that infestation of murdered space aliens....
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I suspeect it's hard to pass FCC (and thus sell legally) without sheilding
1. You have to have cash on hand to exercise them. 500,000 options at $1 for a $100 stock do you no good if you don't have half a million on hand.
Yes but most public companies will do the single transaction exercise&sell thing with a broker for you (but they are required to do some withholding on it and you wont be able to claim capital gains)
2. You have to pay short term capital gains, even if you don't sell. You must pay taxes on the difference between your strike price and the current market price. If the stock went up a lot ($99 in the previous example), you have to pay $36 in taxes per share immediately-- even though you haven't sold your stock yet! People have lost a lot of money on ISO's this way.
ONLY if you exercise and don't sell after yyour grant. There are 2 ways to avoid this 1) exercise your options into escrow the day you get the grant - that way they are worth what you pay for them and owe no capital gains on them untill you sell them (or can lock in long term capital gains - this is a particularly goodd idea if you are getting penny/nickel stock as a company founder or very early employee), or 2) exercise&sell - in one transaction, that way you have the cash to pay the tax on the capital gain (but you pay the higher short term rate) - be vary carefull if you are exercising more than about $100k in a year - you may also be subject to AMT anyway because it tends to wipe out your traditional deductions (house, property tax, childcare etc) - see a profesional - don't wait 'till the end of the year and pay the penalty
3. ISO's are not necessarily honored if a company is sold. If the company is not publicly traded and is forced to sell or liquidate, preferred shares are paid off first. ISO's get whatever is left, which may be nothing.
This is true - the way it works is that the people who fund a startup (that leads to your paycheck) get preferential shares - if a company goes public these get converted to ordinary shares, if it gets wound up they get converted first at a fixed rate, if the company gets sold for less than the value of the pref. shares then nothing is left over for ordinary share holders
honestly... not signing may be a silly thing to do.... this is because the option price gets locked in when the stock is granted - usually the board votes you the stock and you sign the papers within a few days and the option prices don't change - but if there's another financing round before all the papers are signed the board may be forced to reprice them to a higher exercise price (INAL - but I know there are state and federal laws that cover this).
Secondly the vesting may not start untill you sign them - which may mean that you've missed out on a year's worth of stock....
As a rule signing the options agreement costs you nothing (unless you want to do the early-exercise-and-escrow thing to lock in capital gains - something that's definitely worth doing if you're very early enough that you get penny shares) - it's well worth getting someone who's been through this a couple of times to explain the tax ramifications of options in simple language if you haven't been down this route before
It's time for a geek march on Redmond - bald headed 'cancer survivors' picketting the gates of The M$ campus - proclaiming their personhood in the face of the suffering inflicted by the evile emperor
I think that's kinda the point - Mandrake users want to make sure it stays around so they buy stock in the company to make sure it has the working capital to do so.
Or you can look at it a different way - investors buy stocks because they expect a return.... it's just that traditionaly the return is money.... in this case it might be money, if they are wildly successfull, or it might be in some more intangable (and untaxable!) form like free access to cooler software in the future (ie a better distro) etc etc. In general I think a lot of the really cool stuf about open source has happened because of the growth of this largely non-money "hacker-gift-culture" sort of economy
The MPAA claims in their brief: "The trial testimony was unanimous (from both sides) that DeCSS performs two functions: it decrypts an encrypted DVD movie file and then copies it to the user's computer hard drive or other storage device."
In which to my reading sais that they claim it CAN'T be used for streaming (ie to play a DVD to the screen) - of course they are full of it and their brief misrepresents reality....
actually both are being used - SF just set up a public filling station that uses both. The city of Berkeley claims to be running its entire curbside recyling fleet on recyled oil
Here in the Bay Area a numbers of cities are running part of their fleets on diesel from recyled cooking oil - it's really wierd you go past one and it smells like fries:-) Apparently its low polluting and cheap, and the main drawback is that you need to replace all the rubber parts in your fuel system with synthetics and be carefull about changing your fuel filter more often
I've had a similar experience - I was able to abandon my wrist brace (I had tendonitis) after buying my Dell laptop - I think it comes from holding my hands in a more natural way (I actually use it in my lap).
On the other hand my boss has just got me an IBM thinkpad A29 which with the 1400x1050 screen with KDE and antialiasing looks absolutely lovely - but the little red nipple-mouse thingy leaves my right hand in a horribly stressed state trying to use it - I really want the DELL kdb layout with the IBM screen etc
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it's more like an old idea come back to haunt us :-) this idea has been around for quite a while (like since the 60s). On the other hand people have been doing this stuff in the mainstream morerecently (the x86 recompilers to Sparc/Alpha, Java JIT, Transmeta etc are all modern examples of this basic idea)
but probably more complex than just "my keyboard made my wrists hurt" - I know I was typing for 15 years before my tendonitis kicked in and I had to wear a wrist brace for 5 years more. On the other hand I'm pretty sure that the thing that kicked off my pain was not typing - but having kids and all the lifting and bouncing etc involved .... getting a laptop seemed to be the thing that finally fixed it for me - maybe not just because of the less stressfull angle that I hold my wrists at but also because I use a traditional keyboard a bit as well which means I have lots of different ways to work
Neither stops the bozo with the FAE bomb (or biotoxin, or satchel nuke) in front of your govt building, or on a boat coming into NY harbor
I must admit I only read the press release link which only refers to '35%' not '70%' - 35% is reasonable from 70% if you assume that delays are evenly shared between gates and nets - of course my experience is that while that's true for most paths the ones that come and bite you are the long nets that are mostly RC
These days even process shrinks don't give use the speedups they used to (edge effects, RC delays and all that) - however everylittle bit helps - 35% faster silicon probably means 10% faster chips overall - what we really need is a new way to do interconnect - lasers? room temp superconductors? quantum comunications ["I put a cat in my box I don't know if it's dead why don't you check to see if there's any food missing at your end?" :-]? esp? etc etc
actually last time I was in Compusa they had DSL modems on the shelf ....
Anyway for a lark a friend of mine built this humungo tone generator and connected it to his house mains .... then in the wee hours of the morning used it to send morse across town .... by turning on and off all the street lights in his neighborhood ....
However reality is different - we now have a reliable, cheap, decentralized mechanism for moving information around - the RIAA is redundant - the asteroid has landed and we mammals just need to run around and make sure we don't get crushed by falling dinosaurs
Has anyone ever done this sort of transform to map images of the heavens to flat maps?
at the very least you'll get some free legal advice, at the best maybe free representation.
But Frankenstein's monstor was a lovable misunderstood freak who turned on it's tormentors .... however I agree with you MS is evil, whether it's unkillable remains to be seen
Our modern day concept of owned music is a result of the sheet music industry - which needed a ubiquitous instrument and players (ie the piano).
Anyway in human history owned music is a blip on the time-scale of things - maybe 150 years at most - who's to say it will stay that way for ever, the circle may well turn and popular music will be owned by the people again - it might mean that musicians may not be able to make billions (or the illusion of billions) of $$ but we might get more cool music and less manufactured crap
What I am skeptical about is that it means a whole new routing infrastructure - not just new routing tools (which I guess is what they are really selling) but also 3d extraction tools, timing infrastructure, DRC etc etc getting all of this working from all the different vendors and getting it to work together is NOT going to be easy
Elron Hubbard .... he just kept cranking them out for years after his death .... probably something to do with that infestation of murdered space aliens ....
I suspeect it's hard to pass FCC (and thus sell legally) without sheilding
Yes but most public companies will do the single transaction exercise&sell thing with a broker for you (but they are required to do some withholding on it and you wont be able to claim capital gains)
2. You have to pay short term capital gains, even if you don't sell. You must pay taxes on the difference between your strike price and the current market price. If the stock went up a lot ($99 in the previous example), you have to pay $36 in taxes per share immediately-- even though you haven't sold your stock yet! People have lost a lot of money on ISO's this way.
ONLY if you exercise and don't sell after yyour grant. There are 2 ways to avoid this 1) exercise your options into escrow the day you get the grant - that way they are worth what you pay for them and owe no capital gains on them untill you sell them (or can lock in long term capital gains - this is a particularly goodd idea if you are getting penny/nickel stock as a company founder or very early employee), or 2) exercise&sell - in one transaction, that way you have the cash to pay the tax on the capital gain (but you pay the higher short term rate) - be vary carefull if you are exercising more than about $100k in a year - you may also be subject to AMT anyway because it tends to wipe out your traditional deductions (house, property tax, childcare etc) - see a profesional - don't wait 'till the end of the year and pay the penalty
3. ISO's are not necessarily honored if a company is sold. If the company is not publicly traded and is forced to sell or liquidate, preferred shares are paid off first. ISO's get whatever is left, which may be nothing.
This is true - the way it works is that the people who fund a startup (that leads to your paycheck) get preferential shares - if a company goes public these get converted to ordinary shares, if it gets wound up they get converted first at a fixed rate, if the company gets sold for less than the value of the pref. shares then nothing is left over for ordinary share holders
Secondly the vesting may not start untill you sign them - which may mean that you've missed out on a year's worth of stock ....
As a rule signing the options agreement costs you nothing (unless you want to do the early-exercise-and-escrow thing to lock in capital gains - something that's definitely worth doing if you're very early enough that you get penny shares) - it's well worth getting someone who's been through this a couple of times to explain the tax ramifications of options in simple language if you haven't been down this route before
It's time for a geek march on Redmond - bald headed 'cancer survivors' picketting the gates of The M$ campus - proclaiming their personhood in the face of the suffering inflicted by the evile emperor
I think that's kinda the point - Mandrake users want to make sure it stays around so they buy stock in the company to make sure it has the working capital to do so.
Or you can look at it a different way - investors buy stocks because they expect a return .... it's just that traditionaly the return is money .... in this case it might be money, if they are wildly successfull, or it might be in some more intangable (and untaxable!) form like free access to cooler software in the future (ie a better distro) etc etc. In general I think a lot of the really cool stuf about open source has happened because of the growth of this largely non-money "hacker-gift-culture" sort of economy
In which to my reading sais that they claim it CAN'T be used for streaming (ie to play a DVD to the screen) - of course they are full of it and their brief misrepresents reality ....
No "Cowboy Neal" in the poll ....
actually both are being used - SF just set up a public filling station that uses both. The city of Berkeley claims to be running its entire curbside recyling fleet on recyled oil
Here in the Bay Area a numbers of cities are running part of their fleets on diesel from recyled cooking oil - it's really wierd you go past one and it smells like fries :-) Apparently its low polluting and cheap, and the main drawback is that you need to replace all the rubber parts in your fuel system with synthetics and be carefull about changing your fuel filter more often
On the other hand my boss has just got me an IBM thinkpad A29 which with the 1400x1050 screen with KDE and antialiasing looks absolutely lovely - but the little red nipple-mouse thingy leaves my right hand in a horribly stressed state trying to use it - I really want the DELL kdb layout with the IBM screen etc