I think that's exactly what the WiMax company Clear is trying to be, though it's composed basically of entrenched players plus a few extras : Sprint Nextel, Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House, Google and Intel.
According to this paper, "Impact of DRAM process technology on neutron-induced soft errors" (unfortunately not free), the basic strategy is still the same. As the process scales down, the memory cells get smaller and present less of a target to cosmic rays. However, logic becomes more susceptible to upset due to decreased capacitance.
In the paper they placed various sets of DIMMs into a neutron beam and recorded the MTBE for 1TB of memory. From the data, susceptibility decreases with smaller process nodes. However this effect is offset by the increasing amount of memory installed in computers.
get a job. work 5 years. figure out what you want to do in life.
This I agree with. Getting a job and making some money is better than spinning your wheels. However 5 years may be too long, and likely it will only take a few years to come to a decision.
if you work for anything approaching a decent company, they will pay for your grad school when you figure out what you want to study.
These days, you can't expect the company to pay your schooling. My friend graduated a couple of years ago and has been working for HP. He had been planning to get some company to pay for higher education, but at his current job it seems unlikely. So he applied to a Ph.D. program and got in, and is going to quit his job.
On the other hand, another friend of mine did an internship with VMware during undergrad (I think) and now he's getting his Master's tuition paid by VMware.
So YMMV, but these days the mileage is a lot lower than it used to be.
I'm too young to have experienced Cold War controversy, but a new book came out last month about Reagan and Gorbachev. Apparently Reagan tried to convert Gorbachev to Christianity and kept cracking jokes.
Back when I was a Christian, I thought that the fine tuning of the universe was something pretty darn neat. But as I've learned more about math, physics, and probability, that argument has lost its luster.
But it's true that very few people think seriously about these issues, and challenge their own beliefs. All too often it's a matter of "teaching the controversy", and the answers are just pre-made talking points.
Perhaps I should have said "NIF guys" rather than "inertial guys". NIF has always been about stockpile stewardship, not energy. And it does seem that the new administration is less willing to fund nuke research; for example the RRW program is not in Obama's budget. So if Livermore gets less money to run NIF, they're going to have to make up the difference somehow.
They're pushing NIF as a user facility to study high-pressure conditions, and had a big press conference with the governor about the whole LIFE thing. That's all within the last year.
But seriously, they're predicting a rate of 10-15 Hz for LIFE. That's going to take some work.
Hear, hear. I've also been pretty annoyed by the PR onslaught coming out of NIF these days. The magnetic fusion community has learned from history to tone down expectations, but I guess the inertial guys are just getting started. Perhaps they're worried about their funding.
I've heard a different version of this story. ITER was never going to be built in the US, it was always a fight between Japan and France, the two biggest partners in ITER; the US contribution is relatively small (but the US did back the Japan site). ITER got sited in Cadarache and the Japanese got the Fusion Materials Facility as a consolation prize.
The problem with ITER in the US (according to one of my professors) is that the money for ITER comes out of the general DOE fusion budget. Hence less money for independent research programs. There was a segment of the community pushing for a smaller, US tokamak, versus jumping into ITER. The project was/is called FIRE.
Energy Policy Act of 2005 passed overwhelmingly by Congress and signed on August 8, 2005 by the President endorses FIRE if ITER falters. If at any time during the ITER negotiations, the Secretary of Energy determines that the construction and operation of ITER becomes unlikely or infeasible, the secretary shall submit to Congress, along with the President's budget request for the following year, a plan for implementing a domestic burning plasma experiment such as the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE), including costs and schedules for the plan.
For example, in Korean, eleven is literally translated to mean ten-one, twelve is ten-two, thirteen is ten-three, and etc. Moreover, twenty is two-ten, thirty is three-ten, and etc. Any non-Korean reader of an IQ of 80 or higher can probably figure out the Korean number system with the two examples I've presented. And there is the key: expectancy. Logic creates expectancy and understanding. In turn, Asian children become more comfortable with numbers and they can memorize numbers quicker and retain them longer.
So the argument is that there are no "-teen" and "-ty" to trip people up. I dunno. Doing arithmetic is more about internalizing Arabic numerals in a base-10 number system than anything else, so I can see the connection, but it's tenuous.
Pedagogical methods are more of a factor, I'd say. I never went to Kumon, but some other people I knew certainly did. Drills, drills, and more drills. Ugh. It works, though.
The Japanese are very good at exporting all the pieces of a car for assembly in some other country.
That's not how it works. Lean manufacturing is based on having your supply chain located geographically close to the main factory, and running on close to zero inventory. Nowadays nearly every car company has realized that this is the way to go.
With signals over 1 GHz, it's a different story. Cable length is no problem, since the cable (in other words, the transmission line) is built to spec. What kills you are the discontinuities -- discontinuities create reflections and distortions. A "decent" switch is going to require some serious RF engineering, and will be expensive.
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Honestly, White Castle is only good when you're feeling really hungry. The hunger can be real or, er, potentiated.
Wimax is supposed to be available in a lot of places Real Soon Now, and it's definitely better than mobile broadband.
Surely such sentiments are artful and adequate.
Huh? A processor die is 10-20 mm across. There's still plenty of headroom.
Isn't the X61 12", and more like 4 pounds? You're quite right about the thickness though.
Silver nitrate film stock is very old technology. Think silent, B&W films. It's extremely inflammable so they quit using it around the 1950s or so.
I think that's exactly what the WiMax company Clear is trying to be, though it's composed basically of entrenched players plus a few extras : Sprint Nextel, Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House, Google and Intel.
According to this paper, "Impact of DRAM process technology on neutron-induced soft errors" (unfortunately not free), the basic strategy is still the same. As the process scales down, the memory cells get smaller and present less of a target to cosmic rays. However, logic becomes more susceptible to upset due to decreased capacitance.
In the paper they placed various sets of DIMMs into a neutron beam and recorded the MTBE for 1TB of memory. From the data, susceptibility decreases with smaller process nodes. However this effect is offset by the increasing amount of memory installed in computers.
get a job. work 5 years. figure out what you want to do in life.
This I agree with. Getting a job and making some money is better than spinning your wheels. However 5 years may be too long, and likely it will only take a few years to come to a decision.
if you work for anything approaching a decent company, they will pay for your grad school when you figure out what you want to study.
These days, you can't expect the company to pay your schooling. My friend graduated a couple of years ago and has been working for HP. He had been planning to get some company to pay for higher education, but at his current job it seems unlikely. So he applied to a Ph.D. program and got in, and is going to quit his job.
On the other hand, another friend of mine did an internship with VMware during undergrad (I think) and now he's getting his Master's tuition paid by VMware.
So YMMV, but these days the mileage is a lot lower than it used to be.
I'm too young to have experienced Cold War controversy, but a new book came out last month about Reagan and Gorbachev. Apparently Reagan tried to convert Gorbachev to Christianity and kept cracking jokes.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/02/reagan-excerpt200902
Back when I was a Christian, I thought that the fine tuning of the universe was something pretty darn neat. But as I've learned more about math, physics, and probability, that argument has lost its luster.
But it's true that very few people think seriously about these issues, and challenge their own beliefs. All too often it's a matter of "teaching the controversy", and the answers are just pre-made talking points.
Wow. It felt like a late-night infomercial.
Just curious, what does CCA stand for?
Perhaps I should have said "NIF guys" rather than "inertial guys". NIF has always been about stockpile stewardship, not energy. And it does seem that the new administration is less willing to fund nuke research; for example the RRW program is not in Obama's budget. So if Livermore gets less money to run NIF, they're going to have to make up the difference somehow.
They're pushing NIF as a user facility to study high-pressure conditions, and had a big press conference with the governor about the whole LIFE thing. That's all within the last year.
But seriously, they're predicting a rate of 10-15 Hz for LIFE. That's going to take some work.
I mean, the 1949 takover by radical lefists was considered an improvement, and they killed 60,000,000 of their own countrymen.
There's probably a significant number of people who don't agree with that statement, I'd say.
"Qi" has a pretty wide amount of meanings; it also means "air". "tien qi" = weather.
Reading your comment instantly brought back that "behaves so strangely" clip to my mind. I remember being totally tripped out by that.
Hear, hear. I've also been pretty annoyed by the PR onslaught coming out of NIF these days. The magnetic fusion community has learned from history to tone down expectations, but I guess the inertial guys are just getting started. Perhaps they're worried about their funding.
I've heard a different version of this story. ITER was never going to be built in the US, it was always a fight between Japan and France, the two biggest partners in ITER; the US contribution is relatively small (but the US did back the Japan site). ITER got sited in Cadarache and the Japanese got the Fusion Materials Facility as a consolation prize.
The problem with ITER in the US (according to one of my professors) is that the money for ITER comes out of the general DOE fusion budget. Hence less money for independent research programs. There was a segment of the community pushing for a smaller, US tokamak, versus jumping into ITER. The project was/is called FIRE.
http://fire.pppl.gov/fire_program.htm
Yeah, that statement struck me as odd too. So I googled "malcolm gladwell outliers number system".
http://ruckingfidiculous.blogspot.com/2009/01/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell.html
So the argument is that there are no "-teen" and "-ty" to trip people up. I dunno. Doing arithmetic is more about internalizing Arabic numerals in a base-10 number system than anything else, so I can see the connection, but it's tenuous.
Pedagogical methods are more of a factor, I'd say. I never went to Kumon, but some other people I knew certainly did. Drills, drills, and more drills. Ugh. It works, though.
The Japanese are very good at exporting all the pieces of a car for assembly in some other country.
That's not how it works. Lean manufacturing is based on having your supply chain located geographically close to the main factory, and running on close to zero inventory. Nowadays nearly every car company has realized that this is the way to go.
With signals over 1 GHz, it's a different story. Cable length is no problem, since the cable (in other words, the transmission line) is built to spec. What kills you are the discontinuities -- discontinuities create reflections and distortions. A "decent" switch is going to require some serious RF engineering, and will be expensive.
When you say "disruptive", it makes me wonder why Marvell named their processor "Sheeva".
"I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds."
"I am become Sheeva, destroyer of conventional paradigms."
I see. That's a strict worldview, but I have to admit that it's consistent.
I have to admit that my Spanish is now so sketchy that "sintigo" sounds plausible to me. ;)