Although shortened yellow light are in and of itself a major problem, it doesn't make up for the amount of poor skilled drivers in areas where the yellow light is a reasonable length and they ignore safe driving practices anyway.
As a bunny-suit wearing Intel fab worker, I find this interesting, but not completely unexpected. It was never a matter of if, but when. Otellini wasn't Intel's first CEO, and unless something crazy happens between now and May, he won't be the last.
Being stupid, I misplaced my mail-in ballot, so I couldn't mail it in. When I arrived at the polling place, I was carded (per state law) without issue, and told to get a provisional ballot. After the election official did some minor paperwork, I was handed my provisional ballot.
I recorded my votes, and placed it in the provisional envelope, dropped it off in the provisional box, and left.
I got home, found my mail-in ballot, and subsequently marked it such that it cannot be used as a ballot (doing so is a felony, after all).
All said, I had a harder time actually getting to the polling place than actually voting, as the location was an odd location just off the Loop 101.
Nope, not April 1st. I'm curious what Microsoft has to say. No doubt it is to praise Microsoft, but I wonder if they are going to positively speak about Open Source and Linux
Intel has some of the best (the best?) fabs in the world, and has chips that use a smaller process than what other companies are pushing out, right? So why can't they make a small, power-efficient chip that can at least meet (if not beat) the offerings from ARM and the licenses?
From what I've read on AnandTech, low power Haswell chips might meet your criteria, which are due out the middle of next year. I'd be very surprised if Broadwell (the 14nm die shrink of 22nm Haswell) doesn't.
My only guess is because it still makes more economic sense for Apple to outsource chip manufacturing to a third party. Brand new fabs are about the opposite of cheap as it gets: on the order of $30,000-$50,000 per square foot of cleanroom for the factory alone, including the actual construction cost and tooling the factory, but not counting labor costs and engineering support needed to run the factory, and not counting annual upkeep (which probably approaches 10% of the build cost per year alone).
I've been using AMD for well over a decade and I've never once seen a program that would work fine on an Intel CPU but malfunction on an AMD. I call FUD.
It happens (and vice versa), but it's so few and far between it's not even worth noting.
If the criminal was sophisticated enough to know better, chances are they would walk into the place in broad daylight and use social engineering instead.
Or they'd just say "fuck it", walk into the place in broad daylight wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle, grab what he wants, and high-tail it before the cops show up.
A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called its primary.
Technically, Pluto fits the definition of "planet or smaller body". A moon doesn't necessarily need to orbit a planet; it can orbit a very, very dense hunk of rock that doesn't fit the definition of planet, but has a sufficiently strong gravitational pull to keep it in orbit.
We use concrete for our airports. Incidentally the roads in the city continue to use asphalt, but my guess is that it's "specially blend' for the high temperatures. I've NEVER heard of the asphalt sinking and warping due to the heat here in Phoenix.
However high heat still causes problems. Higher air temperatures leads to less air resistance, which in turn leads to less lift and less drag. Less lift/drag means it's much harder for a plane to either take-off or land safely. It's not unheard of for high temperatures to shut down the airport, simply because it's too dangerous for large airplanes (smaller airplanes fare better, but it's still harder).
Probably because the temperatures + humidity make it, in many cases, hotter than central Europe ever sees. 38-43 degrees C with 90% humidity in the peak of summer is a recipe for death.
Here in Arizona we obsess over air conditioning, but for good reason: Temperatures are hot for eight months out of the year. In Phoenix it's not uncommon for it to remain dangerously hot until well past midnight in the worst part of summer (morning lows around 32 C).
Yeah, I'm not sure what they plan on doing about that. Seems like it could be a major issue. They might not even have a solution to that yet, although TFA seems to be thinking this is going to be used for Flash memory, rather than CPU transistors, which makes heat considerably less of an issue.
NAND memory, and memory in general, is generally first in adopting new process technologies. It's far easier to make (relatively simple) memory circuits (generally consisting of a tiny number of transistors) than it is to make (relatively complex) logic circuits (consisting of orders of magnitude more transistors).
Being that I work in Intel's Fab 32, I can speak on authority on this.
Smaller lithography means you need much better process control and tighter control limits. Machines that can produce quality die for a 45nm lithography might not get the job done at 32nm, and machines that work at 32nm lithography might not work for 22nm, at least not without some serious upgrades to your existing machines, process controls, etc. It is not a trivial task to perform a die shrink, even without architecture changes.
Also changing wafer sizes (from 300mm wafers to 450mm wafers) DOES require new buildings, or complete retrofits of your existing buildings. It is not a trivial task to convert a fab from one wafer size to another; you practically need to rebuild your fab starting from scratch. Nevermind the need to completely retool your fab (virtually all existing 300mm tools will not support 450mm wafers).
For those that want to give the anti-vaccinators something to argue about, the summary title is misleading. From TFA:
"Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular-Pertussis vaccine (DTaP) is recommended for all children at 2, 4, 6 and 15–18 months of age, with a pre-school booster between 4 years of age and entry into kindergarten." "Infants too young to have completed the primary vaccine series account for the lion’s share of pertussis-related complications, hospitalizations and deaths (at least four in Oregon since 2003). We reviewed data on infants hospitalized with pertussis during a two-year period from March 2009 through February 2011. One hundred forty-six infants with pertussis were reported during this time, and 62 (43%) of them were hospitalized for a median of 3 (range, 0–32) days. The median age at onset for hospitalized cases was 8 (range, 2–25) weeks."
So in other words, many children hospitalized for whooping cough were too young to have been fully vaccinated.
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Although shortened yellow light are in and of itself a major problem, it doesn't make up for the amount of poor skilled drivers in areas where the yellow light is a reasonable length and they ignore safe driving practices anyway.
Notice how we haven't seen them in ads for years.
As a bunny-suit wearing Intel fab worker, I find this interesting, but not completely unexpected. It was never a matter of if, but when. Otellini wasn't Intel's first CEO, and unless something crazy happens between now and May, he won't be the last.
IBM? Otellini is Intel's CEO, not IBM.
I got home, found my mail-in ballot, and subsequently marked it such that it cannot be used as a ballot (doing so is a felony, after all).
Typo:
Marked it as such that it cannot be used again as a ballot, as voting twice is a felony.
Being stupid, I misplaced my mail-in ballot, so I couldn't mail it in. When I arrived at the polling place, I was carded (per state law) without issue, and told to get a provisional ballot. After the election official did some minor paperwork, I was handed my provisional ballot.
I recorded my votes, and placed it in the provisional envelope, dropped it off in the provisional box, and left.
I got home, found my mail-in ballot, and subsequently marked it such that it cannot be used as a ballot (doing so is a felony, after all).
All said, I had a harder time actually getting to the polling place than actually voting, as the location was an odd location just off the Loop 101.
Nope, not April 1st. I'm curious what Microsoft has to say. No doubt it is to praise Microsoft, but I wonder if they are going to positively speak about Open Source and Linux
I buy my coffee in 4 seconds by having the cash ready to go in exact change ahead of time. It's not that hard really.
Intel has some of the best (the best?) fabs in the world, and has chips that use a smaller process than what other companies are pushing out, right? So why can't they make a small, power-efficient chip that can at least meet (if not beat) the offerings from ARM and the licenses?
From what I've read on AnandTech, low power Haswell chips might meet your criteria, which are due out the middle of next year. I'd be very surprised if Broadwell (the 14nm die shrink of 22nm Haswell) doesn't.
Why isn't Apple constructing their own chip fab?
That's actually a damn good question.
My only guess is because it still makes more economic sense for Apple to outsource chip manufacturing to a third party. Brand new fabs are about the opposite of cheap as it gets: on the order of $30,000-$50,000 per square foot of cleanroom for the factory alone, including the actual construction cost and tooling the factory, but not counting labor costs and engineering support needed to run the factory, and not counting annual upkeep (which probably approaches 10% of the build cost per year alone).
I've been using AMD for well over a decade and I've never once seen a program that would work fine on an Intel CPU but malfunction on an AMD. I call FUD.
It happens (and vice versa), but it's so few and far between it's not even worth noting.
If the criminal was sophisticated enough to know better, chances are they would walk into the place in broad daylight and use social engineering instead.
Or they'd just say "fuck it", walk into the place in broad daylight wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle, grab what he wants, and high-tail it before the cops show up.
Phoenix ?!? Has anyone ever been there?
This is pure long-shot PR from someone with real estate interests..
Born and raised, thank you very much.
under the DMCA any antivirus software companies can get sued for remove or even marking this.
On the other hand, Ubisoft is probably guilty of violating Federal wiretap laws.
According to Wikipedia:
A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called its primary.
Technically, Pluto fits the definition of "planet or smaller body". A moon doesn't necessarily need to orbit a planet; it can orbit a very, very dense hunk of rock that doesn't fit the definition of planet, but has a sufficiently strong gravitational pull to keep it in orbit.
Probably not, but I bet the Denver airport runways are longer than Phoenix's airport runways to compensate for the reduced amount of lift.
We use concrete for our airports. Incidentally the roads in the city continue to use asphalt, but my guess is that it's "specially blend' for the high temperatures. I've NEVER heard of the asphalt sinking and warping due to the heat here in Phoenix.
However high heat still causes problems. Higher air temperatures leads to less air resistance, which in turn leads to less lift and less drag. Less lift/drag means it's much harder for a plane to either take-off or land safely. It's not unheard of for high temperatures to shut down the airport, simply because it's too dangerous for large airplanes (smaller airplanes fare better, but it's still harder).
Probably because the temperatures + humidity make it, in many cases, hotter than central Europe ever sees. 38-43 degrees C with 90% humidity in the peak of summer is a recipe for death.
Here in Arizona we obsess over air conditioning, but for good reason: Temperatures are hot for eight months out of the year. In Phoenix it's not uncommon for it to remain dangerously hot until well past midnight in the worst part of summer (morning lows around 32 C).
Yeah, I'm not sure what they plan on doing about that. Seems like it could be a major issue. They might not even have a solution to that yet, although TFA seems to be thinking this is going to be used for Flash memory, rather than CPU transistors, which makes heat considerably less of an issue.
NAND memory, and memory in general, is generally first in adopting new process technologies. It's far easier to make (relatively simple) memory circuits (generally consisting of a tiny number of transistors) than it is to make (relatively complex) logic circuits (consisting of orders of magnitude more transistors).
You could have a 1m wafer and produce 22nm CPU dies on it.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if we see 1m wafers within our lifetime.
Being that I work in Intel's Fab 32, I can speak on authority on this.
Smaller lithography means you need much better process control and tighter control limits. Machines that can produce quality die for a 45nm lithography might not get the job done at 32nm, and machines that work at 32nm lithography might not work for 22nm, at least not without some serious upgrades to your existing machines, process controls, etc. It is not a trivial task to perform a die shrink, even without architecture changes.
Also changing wafer sizes (from 300mm wafers to 450mm wafers) DOES require new buildings, or complete retrofits of your existing buildings. It is not a trivial task to convert a fab from one wafer size to another; you practically need to rebuild your fab starting from scratch. Nevermind the need to completely retool your fab (virtually all existing 300mm tools will not support 450mm wafers).
The new fabs being built in Oregon and Arizona are being built with the mentality of "300mm today, upgradable to 450mm tomorrow".
I seem to recall something along the lines of Facebook buying out certain companies for the explicit purpose of killing SMS text messaging.
For those that want to give the anti-vaccinators something to argue about, the summary title is misleading. From TFA:
"Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular-Pertussis vaccine (DTaP) is recommended for all children at 2, 4, 6 and 15–18 months of age, with a pre-school booster between 4 years of age and entry into kindergarten."
"Infants too young to have completed the primary vaccine series account for the lion’s share of pertussis-related complications, hospitalizations and deaths (at least four in Oregon since 2003). We reviewed data on infants hospitalized with pertussis during a two-year period from March 2009 through February 2011. One hundred forty-six infants with pertussis were reported during this time, and 62 (43%) of them were hospitalized for a median of 3 (range, 0–32) days. The median age at onset for hospitalized cases was 8 (range, 2–25) weeks."
So in other words, many children hospitalized for whooping cough were too young to have been fully vaccinated.
That's not too far off from a typical Phoenix July day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate