Don't forget their beloved French cars. The Renault Vel Satis is probably the biggest overly-designed eye-turd of a car currently in existence. Ugly and reliable like a Hizbollah rocket.
Hey, good catch. I thought I had them all covered. Maybe that's why Intel stopped using the project code name, in favor of the product name, Centrino....
Yes, that's true, but these project names would never become approved, if there weren't north american locations with the same name. Check for yourself.
Intel takes its product names from U.S. geographical locations, as no one can trademark these names under U.S. law, apparently. Merom is (or could be) right here.
Hello Mods, this Frenchie-joke is actually the only funny one on, right now.
If you don't understand it, google for "World Cup", "Zidane" and "Head-butt", you'll see...
What makes you think the software industry is less rotten than the entertainment industry? There will always be suits with dollar signs in their irises playing dirty for personal gain whatever it be money or power. They can't help it. Some people are just like that.
Car makers are fully aware of the problem potential of badly developed software. They try to apply the following methodology to their embedded software development, Automotive Spice.
I once interviewed with a company designing software for automotive applications, and apparently all car makers are scrambling to implement this (all European ones, anyway). According to them, the mechanical/engine/body parts in a car are no longer affected by severe quality problems across the industry the same way the on-board software is.
Any Slashdot readers with nice examples, here?:)
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...assuming it's not in the proximity of any dielectric with a relavive permittivity other than 1. Otherwise it would travel slower. Surface lines on typical printed circuit boards would support a proparagion velocity of 2/3rds of the speed of light.
I guess we all have our scapegoats. In Luxembourg all the foreigners make fun of the Luxembourgish. The place _is_ way out in the boonies (slightly rural;-)with the accompanying mentality and that makes them easy victims of homesick foreigners.
The Office is one of my favourites. David Brent (Gervais) makes my toes cringe to the degree that I need a rolling pin to straighten them out again. But after the Dr. Who tardis ed. & Father Ted box set purchases in just one month, my account for useless toss needs a rest.
I used to watch League of Gentlemen when it was broadcast on Danish telly, which was bizarre and great in the beginning, but after a couple of episodes, the bizarreness (?) of it all caught up with me and left my head slightly spinning. And I thought I could cope with abstract humour.
The xenophobe's book mentions the literate-mindedness of the Danes. I guess that prevented me from understanding how deep British sarcasm actually is.
Btw. the reason I went for the Fiesta was the price, engine power vs. weight ratio, equipment and mileage. The VW Golfs are a bit pricey around these parts and they always have at least 100000 km on the clock. Also, I need to start my new job next month and a used car hunt can be quite time consuming. Especially, if you need to wind down all the activities/doing hand-overs in your old job at the same time.
Cheers, you old toss pot. Somehow tw*t and c*nt don't seem appropriate...
Oh, a constructive comment on borderline flamebait! Sorry, but I had to add you to my Friends list.
W.r.t. English popular culture, I'm all with you there, Hell, I even have Black Books 1-3, Coupling 1-3, Bottom -an arse oddity, Father Ted 1-3 (don't know if that counts), Extras 1, Doctor Who New Series 1 (This one really makes the new Battlestar Galactica look like a soap opera. Once you meet the doctor, you can't turn back). I could even impersonate a northener, back in the time I had daily contact to one. So I do understand the sarcasm and the resentment of public piety, which I share with you.
But I always had a hard time accepting what I seem to have interpreted as malice. Another example: I was attending a summer course in Oxford and was surprised to see how much piss-taking the Irish were exposed to from the English. I felt a bit bad for them, but they seemed to ignore all the comments completely. Apparently, there was another layer of the discussion which I didn't understand. I guess I stand corrected, and a lot of situations make sense, now.
In the interest of self-critisim, here's a link to a book written by a handful of British authors exiled in my country. It contains some brilliant bits which I interpreted as malice up until now. My wife (she's also a "foreigner") laughed her head off.
OK, so I was lashing out at the French before but you English deserve a whack as well. To me the English are the most malicious and sarcastic people of Europe (But not without a sense of humour). Example: Last time I went on a flight to London Heathrow, this English bloke takes off his laptop backpack and hits the American college backpacker behind him. The American politely asked him to be careful to which the English guy (now very annoyed) replied that he (the American) should try to learn some manners and speak proper English. I was gobsmacked. So was the American.
But your comment on the fuel efficiency of European cars is dead on. Coincidentially, I had my 100 hp Fiesta (2nd car) delivered yesterday. Finally (13 years too late), I can make by boy racer dreams come true:-).
Well, in addition, I'm exiled in a French speaking country and enjoy all the French contributions to modern culture, such as:
useless public servants who stop their personal and professional development after they get employed by the government with virtually no chance of getting laid off.
The fantastic French trafic culture where no one uses turning indicators, they're obsessed with cutting in front of you no matter how fast you're going,
and (hooray) their awful and sophisticated sour wine.
I mean, really, just look at Corinne Maier's book "Bonjour Paresse" ("Hello Laziness!: Why hard work doesn't pay"), which provides guidelines to how people survive in large corporations without actually working. Apparently, it's a bestseller.
...and may I just mention that you can thank the so-called European Left that there is a thriving industry developing energy conserving technologies for power plants, heating plants and transportation. I'm telling you, forget about the IT business, microelectronics, pharmaceutical companies. They won't save the world. Energy conservation is The Next Big Thing.
Oh, and by the way, we Europeans aren't all French. Actually, most of us can't stand them at all.
I don't think you fully understand the challenge of constructing 100 Gb/s equipment. The optical industry is struggling with developing 40Gb/s at a competitive price. No telco would ever touch that if you can get 4 x 10Gb/s equipment at a fragment of the cost.
Cost is not necessarily prohibitive, but it certainly can slow down acceptance of new technology.
Besides, we should focus on higher bandwith connections to the end user such as fiber-to-the-home initiatives. This is one of the few things that can drive acceptance of high speed network equipment. I'd certainly love to have a "small" 1Gb/s connection rather than my own puny 2Mb/s line.
Don't fool yourselves, 10Gb/s and 100Gb/s are way out, still.
If you were a real superman fan you'd know that there are several different flavours of kryptonite with various effects. Surely there's one kind that can just neutralize his superpowers.
Otherwise, he would have to use sunlight from a red sun where the sun never shines;-).
Changing the laws of physics and whether or not complete active noise cancellation is possible for a cubicle is not the issue!
1) The invention of a device which adds to the overall noise level in the office is clearly headed down the wrong development path. Agree? Good.
2) All I'm saying is that while complete noise cancellation may not be possible for a cubicle size volume, what would it take to enable it??? Clearly, as you also state, there are laws of physics which would make the conventional point-oriented noise cancellation...well, erm.. pointless... for a problem like this. Why shouldn't we think a little out of the box? Where's the inventor in you?
I can't believe that a partial, workable active noise cancellation solution (from the point of hearing of the surrounding cubicles) is impossible without proving it first (Mind you: textbooks on wave propagation don't count).
Hmm. Just because something isn't achievable with conventional technology today, doesn't have to mean it's forever impossible. Isn't your attitude a bit like "640kb is all a user will ever need"?
All I'm saying is that the development direction of the product in quesiton is wrong.
Keep the Billisms coming...;)
Instead of contributing to the overall noise level, why not research an effective noise cancellation solution? I realize that they're not completely effective, but they ought to be able to muffle the noise somewhat to the point that your noise blends in with the background noise of a thousands mouse clicks and Windows ding sounds.
Regarding your comment on cost-effective packaging for optical ICs:
You want to use standard connectors for optical fibres mounted on standard IC packages. OK. Now please solve these problems also:
1) The reliability of sockets mounted on low cost mold injection plastic packages: I doubt such a package can survive a) thermal shock testing b) temp cycling (-40 degC to 85 degC) to the extent that it can actually pass standard JEDEC requirements. The difference in coefficient of thermal expansion will kill you
2) If it does, I doubt you can call it cost effective, if you consider other connectorized packages, even just electrical connectors (>$50 just for the package...) Cost effective packaging is usually less than $1 per device for small scale devices.
The only viable commercial solution I am aware of is the one seen here. And it's not even that inexpensive.
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Just proves my point. Their guidance systems must be "fabriqué en France"...!
Don't forget their beloved French cars. The Renault Vel Satis is probably the biggest overly-designed eye-turd of a car currently in existence. Ugly and reliable like a Hizbollah rocket.
Hey, good catch. I thought I had them all covered.
Maybe that's why Intel stopped using the project code name, in favor of the product name, Centrino....
Yes, that's true, but these project names would never become approved, if there weren't north american locations with the same name. Check for yourself.
Intel takes its product names from U.S. geographical locations, as no one can trademark these names under U.S. law, apparently. Merom is (or could be) right here.
Hello Mods, this Frenchie-joke is actually the only funny one on, right now. If you don't understand it, google for "World Cup", "Zidane" and "Head-butt", you'll see...
OMG! Slashdotters preaching tolerance and maturity? Next thing will probably be MS opening the source for Vista and seven angels with trumpets...
What makes you think the software industry is less rotten than the entertainment industry? There will always be suits with dollar signs in their irises playing dirty for personal gain whatever it be money or power. They can't help it. Some people are just like that.
Car makers are fully aware of the problem potential of badly developed software. They try to apply the following methodology to their embedded software development, Automotive Spice.
:)
I once interviewed with a company designing software for automotive applications, and apparently all car makers are scrambling to implement this (all European ones, anyway). According to them, the mechanical/engine/body parts in a car are no longer affected by severe quality problems across the industry the same way the on-board software is.
Any Slashdot readers with nice examples, here?
...assuming it's not in the proximity of any dielectric with a relavive permittivity other than 1. Otherwise it would travel slower. Surface lines on typical printed circuit boards would support a proparagion velocity of 2/3rds of the speed of light.
I guess we all have our scapegoats. In Luxembourg all the foreigners make fun of the Luxembourgish. The place _is_ way out in the boonies (slightly rural ;-)with the accompanying mentality and that makes them easy victims of homesick foreigners.
The Office is one of my favourites. David Brent (Gervais) makes my toes cringe to the degree that I need a rolling pin to straighten them out again. But after the Dr. Who tardis ed. & Father Ted box set purchases in just one month, my account for useless toss needs a rest.
I used to watch League of Gentlemen when it was broadcast on Danish telly, which was bizarre and great in the beginning, but after a couple of episodes, the bizarreness (?) of it all caught up with me and left my head slightly spinning. And I thought I could cope with abstract humour.
The xenophobe's book mentions the literate-mindedness of the Danes. I guess that prevented me from understanding how deep British sarcasm actually is.
Btw. the reason I went for the Fiesta was the price, engine power vs. weight ratio, equipment and mileage. The VW Golfs are a bit pricey around these parts and they always have at least 100000 km on the clock. Also, I need to start my new job next month and a used car hunt can be quite time consuming. Especially, if you need to wind down all the activities/doing hand-overs in your old job at the same time.
Cheers, you old toss pot. Somehow tw*t and c*nt don't seem appropriate...
Oh, a constructive comment on borderline flamebait! Sorry, but I had to add you to my Friends list.
;-).
W.r.t. English popular culture, I'm all with you there, Hell, I even have Black Books 1-3, Coupling 1-3, Bottom -an arse oddity, Father Ted 1-3 (don't know if that counts), Extras 1, Doctor Who New Series 1 (This one really makes the new Battlestar Galactica look like a soap opera. Once you meet the doctor, you can't turn back). I could even impersonate a northener, back in the time I had daily contact to one. So I do understand the sarcasm and the resentment of public piety, which I share with you.
But I always had a hard time accepting what I seem to have interpreted as malice. Another example: I was attending a summer course in Oxford and was surprised to see how much piss-taking the Irish were exposed to from the English. I felt a bit bad for them, but they seemed to ignore all the comments completely. Apparently, there was another layer of the discussion which I didn't understand. I guess I stand corrected, and a lot of situations make sense, now.
In the interest of self-critisim, here's a link to a book written by a handful of British authors exiled in my country. It contains some brilliant bits which I interpreted as malice up until now. My wife (she's also a "foreigner") laughed her head off.
Well, I'll be off then, you old w*nker
OK, so I was lashing out at the French before but you English deserve a whack as well. To me the English are the most malicious and sarcastic people of Europe (But not without a sense of humour). Example: Last time I went on a flight to London Heathrow, this English bloke takes off his laptop backpack and hits the American college backpacker behind him. The American politely asked him to be careful to which the English guy (now very annoyed) replied that he (the American) should try to learn some manners and speak proper English. I was gobsmacked. So was the American.
:-).
But your comment on the fuel efficiency of European cars is dead on. Coincidentially, I had my 100 hp Fiesta (2nd car) delivered yesterday. Finally (13 years too late), I can make by boy racer dreams come true
Exactly. This is a short and concise description of the MPW (Multi Product Wafer) concept. Several different chip designs on a wafer.
Well, in addition, I'm exiled in a French speaking country and enjoy all the French contributions to modern culture, such as:
,
useless public servants who stop their personal and professional development after they get employed by the government with virtually no chance of getting laid off.
The fantastic French trafic culture where no one uses turning indicators, they're obsessed with cutting in front of you no matter how fast you're going
and (hooray) their awful and sophisticated sour wine.
I mean, really, just look at Corinne Maier's book "Bonjour Paresse" ("Hello Laziness!: Why hard work doesn't pay"), which provides guidelines to how people survive in large corporations without actually working. Apparently, it's a bestseller.
...and may I just mention that you can thank the so-called European Left that there is a thriving industry developing energy conserving technologies for power plants, heating plants and transportation. I'm telling you, forget about the IT business, microelectronics, pharmaceutical companies. They won't save the world. Energy conservation is The Next Big Thing.
Oh, and by the way, we Europeans aren't all French. Actually, most of us can't stand them at all.
I don't think you fully understand the challenge of constructing 100 Gb/s equipment. The optical industry is struggling with developing 40Gb/s at a competitive price. No telco would ever touch that if you can get 4 x 10Gb/s equipment at a fragment of the cost.
Cost is not necessarily prohibitive, but it certainly can slow down acceptance of new technology.
Besides, we should focus on higher bandwith connections to the end user such as fiber-to-the-home initiatives. This is one of the few things that can drive acceptance of high speed network equipment. I'd certainly love to have a "small" 1Gb/s connection rather than my own puny 2Mb/s line.
Don't fool yourselves, 10Gb/s and 100Gb/s are way out, still.
If you were a real superman fan you'd know that there are several different flavours of kryptonite with various effects. Surely there's one kind that can just neutralize his superpowers. Otherwise, he would have to use sunlight from a red sun where the sun never shines ;-).
Changing the laws of physics and whether or not complete active noise cancellation is possible for a cubicle is not the issue!
...well, erm.. pointless... for a problem like this. Why shouldn't we think a little out of the box? Where's the inventor in you?
1) The invention of a device which adds to the overall noise level in the office is clearly headed down the wrong development path. Agree? Good.
2) All I'm saying is that while complete noise cancellation may not be possible for a cubicle size volume, what would it take to enable it??? Clearly, as you also state, there are laws of physics which would make the conventional point-oriented noise cancellation
I can't believe that a partial, workable active noise cancellation solution (from the point of hearing of the surrounding cubicles) is impossible without proving it first (Mind you: textbooks on wave propagation don't count).
Peace.
Hmm. Just because something isn't achievable with conventional technology today, doesn't have to mean it's forever impossible. Isn't your attitude a bit like "640kb is all a user will ever need"? All I'm saying is that the development direction of the product in quesiton is wrong. Keep the Billisms coming... ;)
Instead of contributing to the overall noise level, why not research an effective noise cancellation solution? I realize that they're not completely effective, but they ought to be able to muffle the noise somewhat to the point that your noise blends in with the background noise of a thousands mouse clicks and Windows ding sounds.
Lewinsky jokes are just so last century.
How many technological/marketing disasters will AMD be allowed to make, before the slashdot crowd stops defending their every move?
They're about to move up and away from the underdog market position and with that comes arrogance.
Exactly. How on Earth is this revolutionary?
If I bothered to RTFA I'd probably see that the novelty is that it's a 20 layer HDI substrate.
But that isn't reflected in the lame wording of the post.
Regarding your comment on cost-effective packaging for optical ICs:
You want to use standard connectors for optical fibres mounted on standard IC packages. OK. Now please solve these problems also:
1) The reliability of sockets mounted on low cost mold injection plastic packages: I doubt such a package can survive a) thermal shock testing b) temp cycling (-40 degC to 85 degC) to the extent that it can actually pass standard JEDEC requirements. The difference in coefficient of thermal expansion will kill you
2) If it does, I doubt you can call it cost effective, if you consider other connectorized packages, even just electrical connectors (>$50 just for the package...) Cost effective packaging is usually less than $1 per device for small scale devices.
The only viable commercial solution I am aware of is the one seen here. And it's not even that inexpensive.