First, this is nothing like a hologram. (Reporter: This is shiny, holograms are shiny, this must be a hologram.)
You are such a dick. The reporter never said this was a hologram, he said it provided security in much the same way as a hologram does for a credit card.
This bonding builds up a bunch of mechanical stress in the part, thinning it after bonding without professional tools is a sure way to crack the die.
That's a pretty good point...I hadn't considered that the die could be under tension from the mounting.
I'm going to upgrade before too long, so I may take my old cpu and lap it down to see what results I get (p3 1ghz). I'll probably pot it with epoxy so when I'm grinding it the sides won't chip off.
You don't want to lap a modern day CPU, as all you will do is "create" microscopic cracks and holes. Modern CPU's are laser cut and pretty much perfectly flat.
I don't know if it was your intention, but it looks like you are saying that the wafers are cut from the ingot with a laser. Is that really true? I've heard of lasers used in dicing, but not in slicing the wafer (slicing and dicing jokes aside).
If the laser is just used in dicing, then your cpu will have nice edges, but the flatness won't be affected. And I don't think any manufacturer goes out of their way to polish the back side.
On a side note, I've read about a lot of people lapping their cpu for flatness, but has anyone tried lapping to reduce thickness? I don't think you'd want to try it with a dremel, but I bet you could lap a cpu down to 100 um without adversely affecting it's operation.
The item would be travelling backwards, towards an object in motion forwards.
You throw an object at 5-10 MPH, it travels backwards towards an object travelling 30-40 MPH in the opposite direction. Even with the air drag your still gonna get it there without a problem.
You're neglecting the fact that you are throwing it from a moving position (your cycle is not stationary). Just to say up front I'm not trying to pick on you or anything. It might even be that we aren't talking about the same thing here.... so let's start with some descriptions.
You are traveling on your cycle at 50 mph. You toss a rock over your shoulder in the oppossite direction (behind you) at 5 mph. From the point of view of someone at a bus stop that you pass, the rock is moving in teh same direction you are, at 45 mph.
Now let's say you are traveling at 50 mph, and you pass some idiot talking on their phone. They are traveling in the same direction as you, at 40 mph (as we said, you're passing them). You toss a rock over your shoulder, at 5 mph. The rock, moving in the same direction as you at 45mph will never hit the car that you passed.
That was why I said you would have to throw it pretty fast, at least as fast as the difference in speed between your vehicle and the other. I'm ignoring drag, which would work to your advantage.
Solution: More power to local governments, less power to governments that are so far removed that we cannot reach them.
I like this idea, except the part about more power to local governments. I think there is too much power in the government already--local or otherwise. I'd settle for less power in the federal gov. and leave it at that.
crazy browser has tabs. I believe it instantiates IE in each tab... so there you have it. All the "broken" sites that only work in IE and tabbed browsing to boot.
I still prefer mozilla, but crazybrowser is nice for our intranet (which doesn't work with mozilla).
"I didn't mean that The 13th Floor was a great movie: it wasn't."
I guess whether or not you like a movie is up to you, but it seems like people on slashdot are in a state of perpetual disappointment.
I liked the 13th floor. I thought it was really well done, I liked the story, and there weren't any points in the movie where I thought "that was stupid" or "why would they do that?". It was really too bad that it came out so close to the Matrix. They really were different movies.
I think you're right, though, about the short stories making better movies. Not just SF, but in general. Worked for The Shawshank Redemption anyway.
My new site currently looks like shit in MSIE even though I even made a separate CSS that did widths differently and forced alpha transparency on the logo.
On the other hand, if SCO loses, it will send a strong message to the world: "Stay away from anything GPL, or you'll find your proprietary code taken away from you."
I think you have it backwards. If SCO wins, that would mean (in a perfect world) that SCOs code *was* in fact taken and placed in a GPL product. That, to me, would say "Stay away from anything GPL..."
If SCO loses (note the single "o" in lose), that would mean their code *was not* taken and placed in a GPL product. That, to me, would say "litigious companies suck ass, stay away from anything SCO..."
you can file a provisional patent for about $100. It's only good for a year, but your protected the same as if you had a patent. Gives you some time to go get money from people to build or license your idea.
When you have the cash, you can file for a regular patent, and the effective date is the date you filed for the provisional patent.
we were obliged to update the product to eliminate the effect of optimizations identified in different drivers so that 3DMark03 continued to produce comparable results.
So if a company comes out with new drivers that are more efficient, producing higher performance in their benchmark, they'll just add some nops to even out the playing field? What kind of nonsense is that?
There are a couple different types of Tablet PCs. I forgot the exact names, but there is the swivel type, much like you describe. I think toshiba makes one of these, I've seen it at compusa. It looks like it would break very easily (the swivel part).
The other type is called a Slate type tablet PC. no keyboard.
Personally, I'd like the swivel type, but it looks very breakable... might be to costly to make a robust version. I've horsed around with the demo TPCs, and for the most part, the pen input sucks. And by that I guess I mean the app support. The office apps are difficult to use this way, and the handwriting recognition is still painful. So I'd want a keyboard for most of the input.
But it'd be great to have a TPC in a meeting... not for notetaking, but just to have access to docs and specs and the like, and then to be able to mark them up a little. Hard copy is the easiest to work with, but I hate having a bunch of copies of specs laying around my cube. Seems like every time I toss one, it had some note on page 402 that I needed to keep.
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I'd just like to point out that this guy (http://slashdot.org/~KeanJohnston) just posted for the first time on slashdot today.
Nature published a short article on this a couple of years ago that we covered in our Journal Club meeting at my lab.
A short while later, God published an article calling bullshit on Nature, basically saying she was a sensationalist.
First, this is nothing like a hologram. (Reporter: This is shiny, holograms are shiny, this must be a hologram.)
You are such a dick. The reporter never said this was a hologram, he said it provided security in much the same way as a hologram does for a credit card.
This bonding builds up a bunch of mechanical stress in the part, thinning it after bonding without professional tools is a sure way to crack the die.
That's a pretty good point...I hadn't considered that the die could be under tension from the mounting.
I'm going to upgrade before too long, so I may take my old cpu and lap it down to see what results I get (p3 1ghz). I'll probably pot it with epoxy so when I'm grinding it the sides won't chip off.
You don't want to lap a modern day CPU, as all you will do is "create" microscopic cracks and holes. Modern CPU's are laser cut and pretty much perfectly flat.
I don't know if it was your intention, but it looks like you are saying that the wafers are cut from the ingot with a laser. Is that really true? I've heard of lasers used in dicing, but not in slicing the wafer (slicing and dicing jokes aside).
If the laser is just used in dicing, then your cpu will have nice edges, but the flatness won't be affected. And I don't think any manufacturer goes out of their way to polish the back side.
On a side note, I've read about a lot of people lapping their cpu for flatness, but has anyone tried lapping to reduce thickness? I don't think you'd want to try it with a dremel, but I bet you could lap a cpu down to 100 um without adversely affecting it's operation.
The item would be travelling backwards, towards an object in motion forwards.
You throw an object at 5-10 MPH, it travels backwards towards an object travelling 30-40 MPH in the opposite direction. Even with the air drag your still gonna get it there without a problem.
You're neglecting the fact that you are throwing it from a moving position (your cycle is not stationary). Just to say up front I'm not trying to pick on you or anything. It might even be that we aren't talking about the same thing here.... so let's start with some descriptions.
You are traveling on your cycle at 50 mph. You toss a rock over your shoulder in the oppossite direction (behind you) at 5 mph. From the point of view of someone at a bus stop that you pass, the rock is moving in teh same direction you are, at 45 mph.
Now let's say you are traveling at 50 mph, and you pass some idiot talking on their phone. They are traveling in the same direction as you, at 40 mph (as we said, you're passing them). You toss a rock over your shoulder, at 5 mph. The rock, moving in the same direction as you at 45mph will never hit the car that you passed.
That was why I said you would have to throw it pretty fast, at least as fast as the difference in speed between your vehicle and the other. I'm ignoring drag, which would work to your advantage.
If you're going faster than they are, you'd have to through the rock pretty fast. Probably at least as fast as the difference in your speeds.
momentum and all that.
Solution: More power to local governments, less power to governments that are so far removed that we cannot reach them.
I like this idea, except the part about more power to local governments. I think there is too much power in the government already--local or otherwise. I'd settle for less power in the federal gov. and leave it at that.
crazy browser has tabs. I believe it instantiates IE in each tab... so there you have it. All the "broken" sites that only work in IE and tabbed browsing to boot.
I still prefer mozilla, but crazybrowser is nice for our intranet (which doesn't work with mozilla).
"I didn't mean that The 13th Floor was a great movie: it wasn't."
I guess whether or not you like a movie is up to you, but it seems like people on slashdot are in a state of perpetual disappointment.
I liked the 13th floor. I thought it was really well done, I liked the story, and there weren't any points in the movie where I thought "that was stupid" or "why would they do that?". It was really too bad that it came out so close to the Matrix. They really were different movies.
I think you're right, though, about the short stories making better movies. Not just SF, but in general. Worked for The Shawshank Redemption anyway.
Contradictory ? Yes.
Yeah, it's called "Lessons LEARNED." In this case, he developed/managed a project in C++. He learned that it was the wrong thing to do.
Personally, I can't believe it, but hey, I've written a lot of stupid things on the spur of the moment (this message probably counts).
I like the STL and I like c++, but I'm not a progammer by profession. that probably makes a difference.
Damn I've spent about ten optimised minutes thinking of a reply to this but it just isnt coming.
I'd hate to see how productive you are in your non-optimized time.
yet you think it's unreasonable for people to criticize these coders who blatantly copy Windows
This is a virtualization program. A bit like VMWare... you still have to obtain (ahem) a copy of windows.
Two bosses came over and gave me the TPS-ish speech right in a row
Riiiiiight. Yeah. We're gonna need you to come in on Sunday in addition to Saturday this weekend. In fact, why don't you spend the night here?
which is a lose-lose situation
Or, as we like to say on slashdot, it's a loose-loose situation.
My new site currently looks like shit in MSIE even though I even made a separate CSS that did widths differently and forced alpha transparency on the logo.
You can't polish a turd.
On the other hand, if SCO loses, it will send a strong message to the world: "Stay away from anything GPL, or you'll find your proprietary code taken away from you."
I think you have it backwards. If SCO wins, that would mean (in a perfect world) that SCOs code *was* in fact taken and placed in a GPL product. That, to me, would say "Stay away from anything GPL..."
If SCO loses (note the single "o" in lose), that would mean their code *was not* taken and placed in a GPL product. That, to me, would say "litigious companies suck ass, stay away from anything SCO..."
you can file a provisional patent for about $100. It's only good for a year, but your protected the same as if you had a patent. Gives you some time to go get money from people to build or license your idea.
When you have the cash, you can file for a regular patent, and the effective date is the date you filed for the provisional patent.
heres a link for info: link
I sit corrected.
a license to the unreal engine is not income. I'm pretty sure my fiancee didn't pay income tax on her ring.
In one of the articles Novell spokesperson states that Novell believes the amendment has a vaild Novell signature. That's pretty substantive.
we were obliged to update the product to eliminate the effect of optimizations identified in different drivers so that 3DMark03 continued to produce comparable results.
So if a company comes out with new drivers that are more efficient, producing higher performance in their benchmark, they'll just add some nops to even out the playing field? What kind of nonsense is that?
my bad. didn't see page two.
Exactly where in that article did they endorse beowulf clusters?
There are a couple different types of Tablet PCs. I forgot the exact names, but there is the swivel type, much like you describe. I think toshiba makes one of these, I've seen it at compusa. It looks like it would break very easily (the swivel part).
The other type is called a Slate type tablet PC. no keyboard.
Personally, I'd like the swivel type, but it looks very breakable... might be to costly to make a robust version. I've horsed around with the demo TPCs, and for the most part, the pen input sucks. And by that I guess I mean the app support. The office apps are difficult to use this way, and the handwriting recognition is still painful. So I'd want a keyboard for most of the input.
But it'd be great to have a TPC in a meeting... not for notetaking, but just to have access to docs and specs and the like, and then to be able to mark them up a little. Hard copy is the easiest to work with, but I hate having a bunch of copies of specs laying around my cube. Seems like every time I toss one, it had some note on page 402 that I needed to keep.