It's because 90nm scale of microchips is given by the marketing dept and the 100nm of the carbon nanofibre Y tubes is given by the scientists.
While they are both measurements of length, they aren't measuring the same thing. The 90nm is measing the gate size where the 100nm is the size of the entire tube. Take a look at http://www.micromagazine.com/archive/02/05/lead.ht ml The red parts are the gates, the entire picture is the transistor.
To put it in a more understandable way think if a 2l, 4 cylinder car engine. The marketing dept saying each cylinder is 250ml, the scientists are saying the entire engine (they are working on) would fit into 250ml of space.
The as of next year the council tax (similar to property tax or rates in most countries) will include a component for the olympics. As business (like indivuals) are required by law to pay the council tax, they WILL have contributed money to the games. Admitteditly £'s (pounds) not $'s (dollars).
From many sites "The government has said that, initially, £1.5 billion will come from the National Lottery and up to £550 million from London council tax."
As a scuba diver I've been thinking more along the lines of atmospheric pressure. In my opnion a more imediate problem.
The bones becoming weaker takes days (or longer) to become a significant problem) as far as I'm aware.
A bigger or more dense planet will have higher gravity so logically the atmospheric pressure would be greater at ground level.
Assuming the pressure is almost doubled, then there is only 5 hours before they need to think about decompressing. Take a look at http://www.bsac.freeuk.com/bsac88.xls (note every 10 meters the pressure is doubled).
We all know about how if you change pressures too quickly you can get decompression sickness (aka the bends). Well they do it instantly and I've never noticed any decompression chambers on that base.
Commercial divers do something similar. Most only do partial decompression underwater and instead rely on chambers. After all it's not only more comfortable to sit in a pressurized room and do something like sleep, read etc, than float in cold water, but safer (though harder on the body).
More importantly is the risk they have of Gas Embolism (aka burst lung). Where the effects of decompression sickness take a while to set in (relatively speaking), Embolism's can happen almost instantly and over a much smaller pressure difference. Even an instant pressure change of 25% can cause serious problems. eg a change from 1250mb to 1000mb (1bar)
One of the first things you learn when you start diving is to always breathe (or at the very least always breathe out if you're going up). The chest can take a large pressure pushing inwards, the lungs can't take much of a pressure outwards before they tear and you get air in your chest cavity. Just like if you try to put too much air into a baloon, it explodes. Think of that baloon being your lungs.
Ofcourse if the planet is smaller, with a less dense atmosphere (lower pressure) the rick of the lungs exploding is when they go to the planet rather than when they come back.
The problems really start when workers get involved with each other and then have a fight. More often than not personal / home life spills over into the workplace.
I still think this ruling is competely wrong to attempt to allow an empolyer try and say what you can and cannot do outside the workplace and outside office hours (some exceptions excluded (general common sense stuff))
Why is the analogy so bad ? I was talking about the legal difference.
Where most people are from on here there are differences in the law between trespass and breaking entering (sometimes called forced entry).
Typically Trespass is a misdemeanor. That's your sign on the door. To make matters worse, with a good lawer you'd stand a good chance fighting the trespass.
I failed to talk about the quality of the lock. If you have the poorest quality lock on your door and it was locked, judges, police, (and to a lesser degree insurance companies, they care about the lock quality) will still consider the door locked and so treat the case completely differently than a door with no lock.
Easy. Any level of lossy compression is a damaged version of the original. And if consumers get used to listening to damaged music, and even like it, well bad music will certainly drive good music out.
Try getting a copy of the somg from any online retailer and all of them will be low bitrate DRM's.
If the p2p version is superior (technically) to the (online) retail version, then how is it damaged ?
That's another problem with the IT field. Managers will have bonuses for getting projects finished ontime. The people doing the work will be lucky to get a pay raise at the end of the year if they have meet all their targets
It does beg the question of where are you going to get 5.1 sound apart from a DVD (for the main feature) or generated by a game.
ok you're proably going to start getting more of it with DVD-A, but there is still a case of most music is designed to be listened to on two channels (left & right)
The problem with boot times is they are always quoted as some sort of yard stick, which is conviently forgotten when the new OS comes out.
The boot times are always compared against currently running OS's (complete with patches, service packs, additional software etc). Look at the timings for a fresh install of almost any OS (where the sales dept have used boot time as a sales point) and you'll notice over the last 5 years they have all been about the same. Try it sometime yourself. backup everything on a pc that takes ages to boot, re-install just the os and you'll notice the change
In a real IT environment, you're ineveitably stuck with machines that are accesible ONLY by floppy. Want to boot that PII machine? Better find a floppy.
That's why I have a 3com (3C905) nic on my desk. The card has all the bios bits to do it's own PXE boot.
Considering all the installs etc are PXE boot, we even have DOS and Linux diag images, I can't see that need for a floppy.
About the only need for ones now are some of the newer SATA controllers require a driver disk for windows installs and then only for the first install before we make an image of it. But personally I think that's a design flaw in the M$ Windows installer (why floppy, why not cd/ dvd).
As for the software with the keydisk. ditch it. Those things were a stopgap measure when they were first introduced and always caused more problems than they solved
i'm starting to think biometrics will be nicer because i doubt they're going to make me change my fingerprint.
I wouldn't be so sure you've got 10 fingers, from a quick look at my fingers there are 5 distinct finger prints (looks like each fingers print is a mirror image of the same finger on the other hand (that may only be on my hands and not typical though))
So I can quite easily see how you'd have to change which finger you use on a regular basis, just like you have to change types passwords now
This could be done 1 of 2 ways 1) CD get phased out. Sorry the next release of [big name artist] is going to be on DVD-A only
2) DVD-A's are priced $1 below their CD equivilent for 3-5 years for people to switch. Once Market has reached a critical mass do 1 for 6 months then start putting the prices back up claiming piracy etc
When I first read the "yet another angry techie" call I thought you were meaning them calling us to fix their malware / spyware infested pc.
So why not look at it that way. Anyone who is elected, or works directly for those elected (eg their PA's etc) doesn't get any tech support.
How long will it be before they can't use any pc's etc because of software problems we refuse to fix. After all if they aren't doing what should be their job got the general population why should we do our part for them ?
I'm bothered by this, though admittedly I haven't done b/w darkroom work in years.
This is exactly the reason why they are stopping the product. The poster is probably representative of alot of photographers (and people in general) with a "Hey that's a great thing to start people on this, but I no longer use it myself"
It's economics 101 if you don't make a profit out of something then don't sell it. Yes I know about loss leaders, but this couldn't be described as one of them. I'm sure there will always be a market for black and white photography, but so much is going digital that I think b&w specific film and paper are past their sell by dates
That stops new sites & new businesses. Lets say a new pizza place opens down the road and plans to allow internet ordering. oops sorry you'll have to wait until the next white list is released, they are only released every 3 months?
While I agree that children should be protected from unsuitable content the problem here is that this is the first step on a very slippery slope.
Who's job will it be to advertise / promote this filter?
Also it's this forcing the need for more hardware onto the ISP's aka higher running costs.
Wouldn't better wording for the law be that the AG's office provide this list AND a proxy server. Then require that the ISP's either allow customers to use that proxy, or they provide such filters themselves. Then additional costs aren't forced onto the ISP's
That aside how long will it be before all the ISP's will be required to pass ALL traffic through such filters. How long before the filters include not only porn but other material that the state decides is offensive ?
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It's because 90nm scale of microchips is given by the marketing dept and the 100nm of the carbon nanofibre Y tubes is given by the scientists.
t ml The red parts are the gates, the entire picture is the transistor.
While they are both measurements of length, they aren't measuring the same thing. The 90nm is measing the gate size where the 100nm is the size of the entire tube.
Take a look at http://www.micromagazine.com/archive/02/05/lead.h
To put it in a more understandable way think if a 2l, 4 cylinder car engine. The marketing dept saying each cylinder is 250ml, the scientists are saying the entire engine (they are working on) would fit into 250ml of space.
The as of next year the council tax (similar to property tax or rates in most countries) will include a component for the olympics.
As business (like indivuals) are required by law to pay the council tax, they WILL have contributed money to the games. Admitteditly £'s (pounds) not $'s (dollars).
From many sites "The government has said that, initially, £1.5 billion will come from the National Lottery and up to £550 million from London council tax."
As a scuba diver I've been thinking more along the lines of atmospheric pressure. In my opnion a more imediate problem.
The bones becoming weaker takes days (or longer) to become a significant problem) as far as I'm aware.
A bigger or more dense planet will have higher gravity so logically the atmospheric pressure would be greater at ground level.
Assuming the pressure is almost doubled, then there is only 5 hours before they need to think about decompressing. Take a look at http://www.bsac.freeuk.com/bsac88.xls (note every 10 meters the pressure is doubled).
We all know about how if you change pressures too quickly you can get decompression sickness (aka the bends). Well they do it instantly and I've never noticed any decompression chambers on that base.
Commercial divers do something similar. Most only do partial decompression underwater and instead rely on chambers. After all it's not only more comfortable to sit in a pressurized room and do something like sleep, read etc, than float in cold water, but safer (though harder on the body).
More importantly is the risk they have of Gas Embolism (aka burst lung). Where the effects of decompression sickness take a while to set in (relatively speaking), Embolism's can happen almost instantly and over a much smaller pressure difference. Even an instant pressure change of 25% can cause serious problems. eg a change from 1250mb to 1000mb (1bar)
One of the first things you learn when you start diving is to always breathe (or at the very least always breathe out if you're going up). The chest can take a large pressure pushing inwards, the lungs can't take much of a pressure outwards before they tear and you get air in your chest cavity. Just like if you try to put too much air into a baloon, it explodes. Think of that baloon being your lungs.
Ofcourse if the planet is smaller, with a less dense atmosphere (lower pressure) the rick of the lungs exploding is when they go to the planet rather than when they come back.
The problems really start when workers get involved with each other and then have a fight. More often than not personal / home life spills over into the workplace.
I still think this ruling is competely wrong to attempt to allow an empolyer try and say what you can and cannot do outside the workplace and outside office hours (some exceptions excluded (general common sense stuff))
Why is the analogy so bad ? I was talking about the legal difference.
Where most people are from on here there are differences in the law between trespass and breaking entering (sometimes called forced entry).
Typically Trespass is a misdemeanor. That's your sign on the door.
To make matters worse, with a good lawer you'd stand a good chance fighting the trespass.
I failed to talk about the quality of the lock.
If you have the poorest quality lock on your door and it was locked, judges, police, (and to a lesser degree insurance companies, they care about the lock quality) will still consider the door locked and so treat the case completely differently than a door with no lock.
Or you just use the many apps out there to make a m4a out of the m4p (copy the file without the DRM in it)
Easy. Any level of lossy compression is a damaged version of the original. And if consumers get used to listening to damaged music, and even like it, well bad music will certainly drive good music out.
Try getting a copy of the somg from any online retailer and all of them will be low bitrate DRM's. If the p2p version is superior (technically) to the (online) retail version, then how is it damaged ?
The difference is if you enable WEP then you have taken reasonable steps (legally) to prevent unauthorized access.
It's the difference between closing and locking your front door.
That's another problem with the IT field. Managers will have bonuses for getting projects finished ontime. The people doing the work will be lucky to get a pay raise at the end of the year if they have meet all their targets
It does beg the question of where are you going to get 5.1 sound apart from a DVD (for the main feature) or generated by a game.
ok you're proably going to start getting more of it with DVD-A, but there is still a case of most music is designed to be listened to on two channels (left & right)
The problem with boot times is they are always quoted as some sort of yard stick, which is conviently forgotten when the new OS comes out.
The boot times are always compared against currently running OS's (complete with patches, service packs, additional software etc).
Look at the timings for a fresh install of almost any OS (where the sales dept have used boot time as a sales point) and you'll notice over the last 5 years they have all been about the same.
Try it sometime yourself. backup everything on a pc that takes ages to boot, re-install just the os and you'll notice the change
And there my response would have been to counter sue for enviromental polution.
In a real IT environment, you're ineveitably stuck with machines that are accesible ONLY by floppy. Want to boot that PII machine? Better find a floppy.
That's why I have a 3com (3C905) nic on my desk. The card has all the bios bits to do it's own PXE boot.
Considering all the installs etc are PXE boot, we even have DOS and Linux diag images, I can't see that need for a floppy.
About the only need for ones now are some of the newer SATA controllers require a driver disk for windows installs and then only for the first install before we make an image of it. But personally I think that's a design flaw in the M$ Windows installer (why floppy, why not cd/ dvd).
As for the software with the keydisk. ditch it. Those things were a stopgap measure when they were first introduced and always caused more problems than they solved
i'm starting to think biometrics will be nicer because i doubt they're going to make me change my fingerprint.
I wouldn't be so sure you've got 10 fingers, from a quick look at my fingers there are 5 distinct finger prints (looks like each fingers print is a mirror image of the same finger on the other hand (that may only be on my hands and not typical though))
So I can quite easily see how you'd have to change which finger you use on a regular basis, just like you have to change types passwords now
I was thinking almost the same, but what's this "I'm going to spend half my time doing actual work"
You don't want to upset the customers too much by changing the encryption scheme every month.
This could be done 1 of 2 ways
1) CD get phased out. Sorry the next release of [big name artist] is going to be on DVD-A only
2) DVD-A's are priced $1 below their CD equivilent for 3-5 years for people to switch. Once Market has reached a critical mass do 1 for 6 months then start putting the prices back up claiming piracy etc
When I first read the "yet another angry techie" call I thought you were meaning them calling us to fix their malware / spyware infested pc.
So why not look at it that way. Anyone who is elected, or works directly for those elected (eg their PA's etc) doesn't get any tech support.
How long will it be before they can't use any pc's etc because of software problems we refuse to fix. After all if they aren't doing what should be their job got the general population why should we do our part for them ?
I've since been educated. but I'm sure you'll agree that B&W is becoming more of an art or even just specalist applications than than general use.
Then all you need to worry about is keeping the dust off the records.
I'm bothered by this, though admittedly I haven't done b/w darkroom work in years.
This is exactly the reason why they are stopping the product. The poster is probably representative of alot of photographers (and people in general) with a "Hey that's a great thing to start people on this, but I no longer use it myself"
It's economics 101 if you don't make a profit out of something then don't sell it. Yes I know about loss leaders, but this couldn't be described as one of them. I'm sure there will always be a market for black and white photography, but so much is going digital that I think b&w specific film and paper are past their sell by dates
That stops new sites & new businesses.
Lets say a new pizza place opens down the road and plans to allow internet ordering.
oops sorry you'll have to wait until the next white list is released, they are only released every 3 months?
Now magnify that globally.
While I agree that children should be protected from unsuitable content the problem here is that this is the first step on a very slippery slope.
Who's job will it be to advertise / promote this filter?
Also it's this forcing the need for more hardware onto the ISP's aka higher running costs.
Wouldn't better wording for the law be that the AG's office provide this list AND a proxy server. Then require that the ISP's either allow customers to use that proxy, or they provide such filters themselves.
Then additional costs aren't forced onto the ISP's
That aside how long will it be before all the ISP's will be required to pass ALL traffic through such filters. How long before the filters include not only porn but other material that the state decides is offensive ?
yes, conceeded it doesn't take into account the subdomains, but if you look also in that list is www.bbc.co.uk at about 30
Wasn't it M$ that claimed that linux was viral. /me removes asbestos clothing
I guess they got it backwards. They are the virus
I gotta laugh at this. While the US health service look at Novell the UK's NHS signed a contract with M$ not that long ago.
So the question is, is the HHS trying to do what the NHS did by having a open source pilot scheme to force M$ into better licencing terms ?
I'd have to laugh if in a year or two's time NHS is all M$ (closed source) and the HHS is all open source (linux / unix)