This sounds liek a replacement for the most common TCO (Transparent Conductive Layer) ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) which works but is far from ideal.
TCO's are used for conductors on most displays, and their resistance is a limiting factor in a lot of performance issues, so any improvement is welcome. That is, if this proves out to be anything usable and better.
Tungsten vias (in SiO2) are nothing new. Thinned waters are nothing new.
It sounds like the new aspect is vias through the Si, (still no big deal since the bottom side of a wafer is impractical to build a circuit on.)
and the one thing they don't mention, that is, how do they bond and stack multiple thinned wafers? That is the difficult part, and that is the part totally left out of the article.
What you are saying is that everyone is a journalist which is kind of counterproductive no? (or everyone with a camera or blog or journal) Certainly you can see that if everyone is included in a group than the distinction has little meaning.
I was lazy in writing my post, but the whole idea of journalist shield laws are to allow journalists to give confidentiality protection to sources. So, its not so much a matter of who I think is a journalist, or who the gov thinks is one, but who the sources think is one and are willing to trust with incriminating evidence. Josh was a man on the street with a videocam. Not someone who was protecting sources that trusted him.
So even if we had shield laws there would be no legal test possible which could include josh without including most of the population. What that logic leads to is abandoning the power of subpoena and the responsibility of citizens to testify on matters of state interest. IE, everyone would have the right to avoid testimony in all cases. An interesting idea but probably not what most people who support journalist shield laws would want. This is why I say he was being used. Even the journalists that are defending him don't really want him to be covered by their requested shield laws.
I got to wonder if this is an indirect response to China's anti-satellite test last summer. I mean, it has to be cheaper to send up a new satellite than to refuel an old one so this seems like a bad approach based on the stated purpose.
As a satellite killer though it has potential. It could be stealthy by sitting in orbit waiting to go into action. It could destroy a satellite without leaving obvious evidence. And It wouldn't leave a lot of debris that could damage friendly satellites.
He was not a journalist, and he was not protecting a source. He was a citizen who refused to cooperate with a police investigation. Not a hero, probably just another victim of his own fantasies and ignorance of what freedom of the press actually means.
Ultimately he was only a pawn, used by the real journalists as a sympathetic figure in their attempt to push through some kind of special privileges for themselves.
If these journalists really beleive in what they are doing, why not spend time in jail in the rare case where protecting a source is important? (Not this case.) Soldiers and police put a lot more on the line every day to protect everyone's freedom. Some things are worth the sacrifice and sometimes the sacrifice is the only way to keep those things valuable.
OK, then how does he get to +5 informative on a bunch of crap statements?
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I never do this, but +5 informative?
If you think US roads are poorly designed, please come to Japan and spend some time driving. These people in the article must spend all their time on farm roads during off hours. Japanese roads are by for the worst anywhere for cars. (and I have driven on four continents.) Nothing but stoplights, traffic and people. The stoplights are never synchronized and going anywhere in Japan by car painful by US standards. Why do you think they developed the hybrids in the first place? --- because of all the stop and go driving.
two) How exactly does sprawl help protect against nuclear terrorism? Maybe you mean low density sprawl, but only killing 10,000 people per square kilometer is hardly protection! especially since the terrorist would simply bomb the high density bits.
three) If low density development is encouraged, mass transit and bicycles become impractical, highways become necessary for most travel, and you end up with LA. have you ever driven in LA?
I briefly searched for support fro my claim, and I found none. But,... I was unix admin back in the day and I was responsible for switching my company over to PC's (from typewriters!) and at first I choose Wordstar. WordPerfect soon gained interest and some depts were switched to that since interoperability was not a big deal at that time and they played well together anyway.
Then as we expanded PC usage, (around 1990 ish) new boxes came with Word and Excell - No choice. Word was sucky back then, and it didn't play well with others so there was a dilemma, pay for WordPerfect, or deal with Word for free. So this is what I was referring to. There was a period where MS was shipping Windows with the Office suite packaged with, around the same time they were accused of forcing PC vendors to buy one OS per PC shipped even if customer didn't want MS OS. So this was the start of the unfair trade practices. They used their dominant position to control the OS market, and they used their control of the OS market to leverage into Word, Excell, Explorer, Media Player,.... the list goes on. WordPerfect kept lowering their price to compete, but how do you compete with free? And how do you pay for lawyers? Believe me, MS was hated in the IT world back then (especially in the valley) and the hatred was well deserved. Imagine telling a secretary that they new upgrade doesn't have half the features she has become used to in WordPerfect, but she can't keep using WordPerfect since the accounting dept can't read her emails if she does since they use Word...
Of course, this free period only lasted a short time (I think about 6 months) but that was all it took. It's been rising prices ever since.
Another leg of their strategy is that a lot of secretaries were taking computer classes at the time, and they started certifying training outfits. The secretaries would come back, and they were trained on MS Word as well as OS. Not sure if this was a MS strategy, but maybe.
I think part of the reason MS Office is ubiquitous was that it was so easy to pirate back in the day
Uh, I think you are sadly mistaken.
MS gave away their office applications (Word, Excell) until they were the 'de facto' standard. Gave away as in FREE (but we make you pay more for the OS even if you don't want it.) buy a computer, and you were forced to buy windows, and that came with the office suite. As competitors popped up in other areas (Netscape, Disk defrag, disk compression, whatever, they gave their version of that away too.) This is the whole start of MS's unfair trade practices. Piracy had nothing to do with it, by my recollection MS was always one of the most aggressive in stopping piracy (auditing and suing customers for example.)
I do this for a living (Semi Deposition equip.) and all water is nasty in a cooling loop. DI, Distilled, Blessed by the Pope, whatever. It is all corrosive, and even distilled becomes contaminated quickly. But worst of all it eats into metals, especially Al, but anywhere there is a junction.
Even with no Al it turns red from Cu and Fe in the loop and grows algae and stinks and leaves a crud everywhere.
Fluorinert (or equiv.) is used mostly because it won't corrode anything and its very safe, but it has its problems. Cost, special seal requirements, it's messy, and at higher temps you need metal seals or it will go through them. Nothing worse than an empty cooling loop. I'll bet 90% of the Flourinert cooling loops in the world leak - it boils off and you can't see the "steam" so slowly the level drops.
-jcp-
FUD.
The mercury from generating power can be scrubbed if desired, and on new power stations (in US) it is. The waste stream issues for CFL's are a lot more difficult to control.
Sovor the irony here: Back in the Betamax days Sony had trouble geting momentum going because the content companies (Disney, Columbia,...) wouldn't release content on Betamax. Sony dicided that they needed to own the music and movie companies in order to stop this from happening in the future. So what happened? Some second rate computer company steals the industry they created (portable music)!! And how does Sony respond to this? These are not happy days at Sony.
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This sounds liek a replacement for the most common TCO (Transparent Conductive Layer) ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) which works but is far from ideal. TCO's are used for conductors on most displays, and their resistance is a limiting factor in a lot of performance issues, so any improvement is welcome. That is, if this proves out to be anything usable and better.
I wonder how they do that?
What you are saying is that everyone is a journalist which is kind of counterproductive no? (or everyone with a camera or blog or journal) Certainly you can see that if everyone is included in a group than the distinction has little meaning. I was lazy in writing my post, but the whole idea of journalist shield laws are to allow journalists to give confidentiality protection to sources. So, its not so much a matter of who I think is a journalist, or who the gov thinks is one, but who the sources think is one and are willing to trust with incriminating evidence. Josh was a man on the street with a videocam. Not someone who was protecting sources that trusted him. So even if we had shield laws there would be no legal test possible which could include josh without including most of the population. What that logic leads to is abandoning the power of subpoena and the responsibility of citizens to testify on matters of state interest. IE, everyone would have the right to avoid testimony in all cases. An interesting idea but probably not what most people who support journalist shield laws would want. This is why I say he was being used. Even the journalists that are defending him don't really want him to be covered by their requested shield laws.
As a satellite killer though it has potential. It could be stealthy by sitting in orbit waiting to go into action. It could destroy a satellite without leaving obvious evidence. And It wouldn't leave a lot of debris that could damage friendly satellites.
protesters that vandalized a police car.
Ultimately he was only a pawn, used by the real journalists as a sympathetic figure in their attempt to push through some kind of special privileges for themselves.
If these journalists really beleive in what they are doing, why not spend time in jail in the rare case where protecting a source is important? (Not this case.) Soldiers and police put a lot more on the line every day to protect everyone's freedom. Some things are worth the sacrifice and sometimes the sacrifice is the only way to keep those things valuable.
OK, then how does he get to +5 informative on a bunch of crap statements?
If you think US roads are poorly designed, please come to Japan and spend some time driving. These people in the article must spend all their time on farm roads during off hours. Japanese roads are by for the worst anywhere for cars. (and I have driven on four continents.) Nothing but stoplights, traffic and people. The stoplights are never synchronized and going anywhere in Japan by car painful by US standards. Why do you think they developed the hybrids in the first place? --- because of all the stop and go driving.
two) How exactly does sprawl help protect against nuclear terrorism? Maybe you mean low density sprawl, but only killing 10,000 people per square kilometer is hardly protection! especially since the terrorist would simply bomb the high density bits.
three) If low density development is encouraged, mass transit and bicycles become impractical, highways become necessary for most travel, and you end up with LA. have you ever driven in LA?
Then as we expanded PC usage, (around 1990 ish) new boxes came with Word and Excell - No choice. Word was sucky back then, and it didn't play well with others so there was a dilemma, pay for WordPerfect, or deal with Word for free. So this is what I was referring to. There was a period where MS was shipping Windows with the Office suite packaged with, around the same time they were accused of forcing PC vendors to buy one OS per PC shipped even if customer didn't want MS OS. So this was the start of the unfair trade practices. They used their dominant position to control the OS market, and they used their control of the OS market to leverage into Word, Excell, Explorer, Media Player, .... the list goes on. WordPerfect kept lowering their price to compete, but how do you compete with free? And how do you pay for lawyers? Believe me, MS was hated in the IT world back then (especially in the valley) and the hatred was well deserved. Imagine telling a secretary that they new upgrade doesn't have half the features she has become used to in WordPerfect, but she can't keep using WordPerfect since the accounting dept can't read her emails if she does since they use Word...
Of course, this free period only lasted a short time (I think about 6 months) but that was all it took. It's been rising prices ever since.
Another leg of their strategy is that a lot of secretaries were taking computer classes at the time, and they started certifying training outfits. The secretaries would come back, and they were trained on MS Word as well as OS. Not sure if this was a MS strategy, but maybe.
Uh, I think you are sadly mistaken.
MS gave away their office applications (Word, Excell) until they were the 'de facto' standard. Gave away as in FREE (but we make you pay more for the OS even if you don't want it.) buy a computer, and you were forced to buy windows, and that came with the office suite. As competitors popped up in other areas (Netscape, Disk defrag, disk compression, whatever, they gave their version of that away too.) This is the whole start of MS's unfair trade practices. Piracy had nothing to do with it, by my recollection MS was always one of the most aggressive in stopping piracy (auditing and suing customers for example.)
Fluorinert (or equiv.) is used mostly because it won't corrode anything and its very safe, but it has its problems. Cost, special seal requirements, it's messy, and at higher temps you need metal seals or it will go through them. Nothing worse than an empty cooling loop. I'll bet 90% of the Flourinert cooling loops in the world leak - it boils off and you can't see the "steam" so slowly the level drops. -jcp-
FUD. The mercury from generating power can be scrubbed if desired, and on new power stations (in US) it is. The waste stream issues for CFL's are a lot more difficult to control.
Sovor the irony here: Back in the Betamax days Sony had trouble geting momentum going because the content companies (Disney, Columbia, ...) wouldn't release content on Betamax. Sony dicided that they needed to own the music and movie companies in order to stop this from happening in the future.
So what happened? Some second rate computer company steals the industry they created (portable music)!! And how does Sony respond to this?
These are not happy days at Sony.