Note their web, SpyMac was in talks with Google. SpyMac just open an e-mail capability similar to hotmail, which might also be supported by ads. While on the other hand, Google is trying to implement ways for e-mail to be searched. So that will take a while.
My apology, what I was not sure about is when you said...
People it's called refraction. We don't need some dumbed down nonsense with no real detail, for most people (especially around here) it is completely counter productive and only confuses the issue.
I meant who are you referring to when you said some dumbed down nonsense? I know from your article that you know what refraction is.
In glass, refraction occurs at two place, one on each side. Therefore there are two chances that the light might not bend correctly (defect on surface). In liquid lithography, there's only one refraction, it occurs at the surface of the liquid. I seriously doubt they have a lens in the liquid that have a different diffraction index. Because that would mean light will have to diffract three times, compounding the problem potentially.
Convection in liquid is easy to solve, just put them inside a rooms with even temperature throughout. Even glass will have problem similar to convection, but it's distortion due to material expanding the contracting. As for glass, it is not possible to create a lens that's perfectly smooth, even thou its stable, a light distortion in its shape could screw up the entire lithography process.
One problem with parallel process, it only works with problems in which the problem can be broken into several problems that can be solved individually (example, graphic processing, most mathematic calculations). But parallel processing doesn't work when every step inside the problem require an input from the previous one (I think AI falls under this category... or most common day to day application). In the end, parallel process kicks ass when doing complicated math and graphic processing, but will actually be slower at doing simple tasks that are linear in nature and repetitive (Word processors, e-mail clients).
The breakthough is that they have a technique actually make a chip. And I've a feeling that it might be cheaper then the conventional optical lithography. It's extremely expensive to maintain a dust free room and making a perfectly smooth lens. Liquid lithography might reduce the cause of the lens and reduce the chance of dust getting onto the waffer.
There are several reasons. 1. The major problem with lens is that they have an edge, where diffraction occur. (Even if you mask the edge, the mask themselves will cause diffraction, rendering chips near the edge of the silicon unuseable). 2. The inherent manufacturing flaw in lens (there is NO WAY we can make a perfectly smooth lens), liquid do a better job since gravity force them to become very smooth (of course, they will need to make sure the liquid tank doesn't vibrate, period). 3. The last line of your comment. Using a process with a single refraction does reduce diffraction a lot, not sure by how much, but I doubt its a linear relation.
Another added benefit, I think, is that it will be harder for contaminant to reach the wafer during the lithography process.
Not sure what you are referrring to when you tell people it's refraction. Refraction is a natural event that when light pass through a barrier between 2 mediums at some angle away from the normal of the barrier (the perpenticular line of the barrier), the angle changes. Diffraction is an annoying phenomenon (or useful in some cases) that when a light pass through a tiny slit (or passing by an edge), the light will bend towards the medium with higher refraction index. You can actually see this effect using a magnifing glass (without nothing around it). Go out into the sun and try to focus the sunbeam into a single point (poor ants...) on the ground. Once you did that, move the magnifying glass closer to the ground so that the dot became a disk shape. Look at the edge and notice how it's brighter then the rest of the circle? That's because diffraction bent a little more light towards the center, but because it's not much, it's just a little brighter.
But won't this system take up a lot of space? Especially for multiple application that might want to use each other's data? Or multiple application that uses a common libraries, like the.dll?
I don't like Bush either, but I just don't like anybody comparing him to Hitler since what he does is no where near the atrocity Hitler committed... yet... might change my mind later.
Well said. Although unfortunate for SCO, they don't have any other choice. Their software doesn't sell well, they can't make profit at all doing anything else. Lawsuit is the last thing they have, might as well push it for all its worse. Since either way, they're going to lose big time.
There are some differences. Hitler respected and even idolized what Britain had done -- Bush treats Britain as a lapdog. Hitler actively physically intimidated his physical opponents -- Bush does not. Hitler invaded, occupied, and eliminated the governments of no countries within his first four years as ruler, whereas Bush invaded, occupied, and eliminated the governments of two countries within his first four years as ruler. Hitler wound up eventually killing many more people than Bush has thus far, though Bush is currently ahead for the first four years of rule. Hitler did not actively attempt to control other countries through diplomatic means -- Bush has a team that works hard to control other contries without needing to overthrow their government. Bush has computers and telecommunication monitoring systems, but Hitler did not.
At that time, Hitler don't have bigass guns to use and terrorist to worry about. At that time, everything took a long time, including massing an army they don't have, hence the 4 years delay. At that time, Hitler is trying to become a dictator, so he needs to garner support first. At that time, Hitler is hell bent of killing of all the Jews, at least Bush are not committing genocide. And we all know what we'll do if he even try to pull shit like that. Although I doubt he'll get elected for 2nd term.
US being friendly would be nice... unfortunately for two things.
1. A big brother mentality, or maybe now is more of a big bully. Anyone who have power (US, and previously, the Soviet Union) all wants to either be the big brother (we must protect the weak) or a big bully (do what we say, or we beat the crap out of you).
2. For above reason, other country generally look upon US with skepticism.
And if they're serious about 1GB storage space, I'll personally write an e-mail to them asking them to offer only 100MB at most. Whoever uses a free e-mail service need a 1GB mailbox?? Personally? If I can get 10Meg I'm really happy.
And of course, I won't mine the text ad appended to my mail. (No, seriously, I don't believe in free ride, so i don't mine ads appended to my legit e-mail, unless it's graphic ads).
That and the ton of pigeon droppings that will need to be cleaned up everyday. Imagine, thousands upon thousands of pigeon flying over the city, with dropping raining like rain... ugh...
Um... isn't that what it's all about? Hey, not all researchers are completely humorless. Once in a while they want to do something that's just fucking useless so that we may have something to laugh about in this monotonous, murderer infested world.
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Emphasis on "short" period of time. Well... atleast you won't die at 9G... unless you experienced it for a long time (a few seconds IS long in that sense).
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Note their web, SpyMac was in talks with Google. SpyMac just open an e-mail capability similar to hotmail, which might also be supported by ads. While on the other hand, Google is trying to implement ways for e-mail to be searched. So that will take a while.
Yep, that and at least they're being honest about it.
Hey, give them a break, at least they're honest about it.
My apology, what I was not sure about is when you said...
People it's called refraction. We don't need some dumbed down nonsense with no real detail, for most people (especially around here) it is completely counter productive and only confuses the issue.
I meant who are you referring to when you said some dumbed down nonsense? I know from your article that you know what refraction is.
Hm... let's e-mail them and ask.
Here might be the reason.
In glass, refraction occurs at two place, one on each side. Therefore there are two chances that the light might not bend correctly (defect on surface).
In liquid lithography, there's only one refraction, it occurs at the surface of the liquid.
I seriously doubt they have a lens in the liquid that have a different diffraction index. Because that would mean light will have to diffract three times, compounding the problem potentially.
Convection in liquid is easy to solve, just put them inside a rooms with even temperature throughout. Even glass will have problem similar to convection, but it's distortion due to material expanding the contracting. As for glass, it is not possible to create a lens that's perfectly smooth, even thou its stable, a light distortion in its shape could screw up the entire lithography process.
One problem with parallel process, it only works with problems in which the problem can be broken into several problems that can be solved individually (example, graphic processing, most mathematic calculations). But parallel processing doesn't work when every step inside the problem require an input from the previous one (I think AI falls under this category... or most common day to day application). In the end, parallel process kicks ass when doing complicated math and graphic processing, but will actually be slower at doing simple tasks that are linear in nature and repetitive (Word processors, e-mail clients).
The breakthough is that they have a technique actually make a chip. And I've a feeling that it might be cheaper then the conventional optical lithography. It's extremely expensive to maintain a dust free room and making a perfectly smooth lens. Liquid lithography might reduce the cause of the lens and reduce the chance of dust getting onto the waffer.
There are several reasons.
1. The major problem with lens is that they have an edge, where diffraction occur. (Even if you mask the edge, the mask themselves will cause diffraction, rendering chips near the edge of the silicon unuseable).
2. The inherent manufacturing flaw in lens (there is NO WAY we can make a perfectly smooth lens), liquid do a better job since gravity force them to become very smooth (of course, they will need to make sure the liquid tank doesn't vibrate, period).
3. The last line of your comment. Using a process with a single refraction does reduce diffraction a lot, not sure by how much, but I doubt its a linear relation.
Another added benefit, I think, is that it will be harder for contaminant to reach the wafer during the lithography process.
Not sure what you are referrring to when you tell people it's refraction. Refraction is a natural event that when light pass through a barrier between 2 mediums at some angle away from the normal of the barrier (the perpenticular line of the barrier), the angle changes. Diffraction is an annoying phenomenon (or useful in some cases) that when a light pass through a tiny slit (or passing by an edge), the light will bend towards the medium with higher refraction index. You can actually see this effect using a magnifing glass (without nothing around it). Go out into the sun and try to focus the sunbeam into a single point (poor ants...) on the ground. Once you did that, move the magnifying glass closer to the ground so that the dot became a disk shape. Look at the edge and notice how it's brighter then the rest of the circle? That's because diffraction bent a little more light towards the center, but because it's not much, it's just a little brighter.
But won't this system take up a lot of space? Especially for multiple application that might want to use each other's data? Or multiple application that uses a common libraries, like the .dll?
I don't like Bush either, but I just don't like anybody comparing him to Hitler since what he does is no where near the atrocity Hitler committed... yet... might change my mind later.
Um... it was an april fool's joke...
Well said. Although unfortunate for SCO, they don't have any other choice. Their software doesn't sell well, they can't make profit at all doing anything else. Lawsuit is the last thing they have, might as well push it for all its worse. Since either way, they're going to lose big time.
There are some differences. Hitler respected and even idolized what Britain had done -- Bush treats Britain as a lapdog. Hitler actively physically intimidated his physical opponents -- Bush does not. Hitler invaded, occupied, and eliminated the governments of no countries within his first four years as ruler, whereas Bush invaded, occupied, and eliminated the governments of two countries within his first four years as ruler. Hitler wound up eventually killing many more people than Bush has thus far, though Bush is currently ahead for the first four years of rule. Hitler did not actively attempt to control other countries through diplomatic means -- Bush has a team that works hard to control other contries without needing to overthrow their government. Bush has computers and telecommunication monitoring systems, but Hitler did not.
At that time, Hitler don't have bigass guns to use and terrorist to worry about. At that time, everything took a long time, including massing an army they don't have, hence the 4 years delay. At that time, Hitler is trying to become a dictator, so he needs to garner support first. At that time, Hitler is hell bent of killing of all the Jews, at least Bush are not committing genocide. And we all know what we'll do if he even try to pull shit like that. Although I doubt he'll get elected for 2nd term.
US being friendly would be nice... unfortunately for two things.
1. A big brother mentality, or maybe now is more of a big bully. Anyone who have power (US, and previously, the Soviet Union) all wants to either be the big brother (we must protect the weak) or a big bully (do what we say, or we beat the crap out of you).
2. For above reason, other country generally look upon US with skepticism.
Wow, you greedy. If you want that, you better be ready to pay for one.
And if they're serious about 1GB storage space, I'll personally write an e-mail to them asking them to offer only 100MB at most. Whoever uses a free e-mail service need a 1GB mailbox?? Personally? If I can get 10Meg I'm really happy.
And of course, I won't mine the text ad appended to my mail. (No, seriously, I don't believe in free ride, so i don't mine ads appended to my legit e-mail, unless it's graphic ads).
A group of Falcons...
There will be a new error message for web
"Error: Packet Lose, Possibly due to Falcon activity in your area"
I think that and the environmentalist screaming "ANIMAL CRUELTY!"
That and the ton of pigeon droppings that will need to be cleaned up everyday. Imagine, thousands upon thousands of pigeon flying over the city, with dropping raining like rain... ugh...
Um... isn't that what it's all about? Hey, not all researchers are completely humorless. Once in a while they want to do something that's just fucking useless so that we may have something to laugh about in this monotonous, murderer infested world.
Emphasis on "short" period of time. Well... atleast you won't die at 9G... unless you experienced it for a long time (a few seconds IS long in that sense).
I know that, What I meant is that compare to the gas itself, Liquid Hydrogen is much denser. Come to think about it... That's a no brainer...
I think it will be very good, less graphic mean faster load time. How much faster? NO idea.