Interesting, but not a counter-argument. Even if only one person at Google uses Windows, that's more than the number of people using Google's OS, since Google doesn't have an OS.
It would be like that if surfing the net on someone unsecure AP were simply receiving -but it's not. As soon as you open your browser your transmitting signals back to the AP - it's not passive, it's two-way communication.
Didn't a physicist (namely Millikan) already see a single electron flow from one place to another when he did his famous oil drop experiment (about 100 years ago?) that measured the mass of the electron?
I really don't see any practical way to keep the molecules together at room temp and atmospheric pressure. ..
Well, couldn't you have a slight excess of carbon rather than straight CO2, like an amorphous diamond structure with a lot of substituted oxygen atoms, maybe even allow some silicon, to form a network? I know the semiconductor industry uses CDO (carbon doped oxide) which is a SiO2 glass loaded up with carbon, formed by vapor deposition - so just change the ratio so you've got mostly carbon and oxygen. Just a thought.
At the end of the 1970s, Moore's Law became known as the limit for the number of transistors on the most complex chips. However, it is also common to cite Moore's law to refer to the rapidly continuing advance in computing power per unit cost.
And one (albeit imprecise) measure of computing power is clock speed. Certainly if one held everything else constant, and solved all the attendant problems like heat dissipation, etc. and increased clock speed of a CPU from 2.5 GHz to 500GHz, one would be greatly outpacing Moore's Law.
There's a big difference between a 150mm fab, a 200mm fab and a 300 mm fab, in terms of capital investment and technology.
Today's 65nm state-of-the-art CMOS processes run on 300mm wafers.
BTW, compound semiconductors (like GaAs, et al.) are typically still made on 150mm wafers or smaller.
The absolute latest technology (extreme UV, not used in production anywhere) research is usually done on 4 inch (100mm) wafers.
No reason to make tools larger when you're only trying to prove the concept, not sell chips. I'm sure IBM did it on 200mm because it was available.
True, DI (deionized) water itself is not very conductive, but getting moisture into the packaging of electronic components does cause problems (e.g. popcorning), and if there is any ionic contamination on surfaces, then the DI water, as soon as it contacts it, is,well, no longer DI. But, as said, water is a good coolant.
Fluorinert (from 3M) would be a really good solution (no pun intended) except for the cost - IIRC about $300 for a half gallon.
I'm guessing, in response to all those questioning why this was done (or necessary) in the first place, that the only reason for doing this was so the the guy could get written up in the magazine and for the Wow! Cool! factor from his buddies.
In a perfect Communist society, I was born to do something and. ..
A-ha, there's the problem: there never was and never will be a perfect Communist society. Human nature doesn't allow it. People always want to be rewarded for their efforts and not see their labor go to support someone who does nothing when he could. When that happens, the motivation to work vanishes.
of course, on the baron continents, most everyone has his own fortified compound, complete with armies of loyal thugs to protect their master's stores of wealth, including frozen seeds.
Quasi-portable.
from Webster's:
1 : having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes (a quasi corporation)
2 : having a legal status only by operation or construction of law and without reference to intent (a quasi contract) [emphasis mine]
. ..and brilliant processes just fall out of the sky, but only once in a century?
No, at least one brilliant person was involved, and I'd guess more.
If your competitor has all the brilliant people and yours are all "ordinary", then as soon as your competitor discovers your (or some other) brilliant process, you're sunk.
I also agree with those who say software development is not the same as assembly line manufacturing, thus things like SPC (statistical process control) don't really apply.
Uh, what company sues to protect the rights of the patent and is uninterested in it for business reasons?
If Apple did steal some specific ideas from Creative, then turnabout's fair play!
I second the opinion that Notes is terrible as an e-mail client. My company (small, japanese-owned) switched from Outlook to Notes for who knows what reason and I've hated it ever since. Now, I know it could fill the database needs, but we're not really using it much for that. (We've got it bass-ackwards, I suppose.)
How surprised would you be if he sued to get his job back and won, claiming privacy infringement or some such thing!
Was he also playing the lottery online?
Glad to know where my income tax dollars are going.
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That's certainly why I drive a Hummer H3 with a Black and Decker rechargeable cordless screwdriver for a motor!
I'm sure MS employees know how to use quotes, operators, and boolean logic to find the answers to their questions through Google. . .
And you're sure of this because. . . ?
Why would MS employees be assumed to know how to do something on a computer simply and efficiently?
Interesting, but not a counter-argument. Even if only one person at Google uses Windows, that's more than the number of people using Google's OS, since Google doesn't have an OS.
It would be like that if surfing the net on someone unsecure AP were simply receiving -but it's not. As soon as you open your browser your transmitting signals back to the AP - it's not passive, it's two-way communication.
I'm not saying any of this is true--it's just what I've heard. . .
OK, we need to make an acronym out of that. Approximately every other comment on Slashdot needs that disclaimer. INSAOTIT-IJWIH
Didn't a physicist (namely Millikan) already see a single electron flow from one place to another when he did his famous oil drop experiment (about 100 years ago?) that measured the mass of the electron?
I really don't see any practical way to keep the molecules together at room temp and atmospheric pressure. . .
Well, couldn't you have a slight excess of carbon rather than straight CO2, like an amorphous diamond structure with a lot of substituted oxygen atoms, maybe even allow some silicon, to form a network?
I know the semiconductor industry uses CDO (carbon doped oxide) which is a SiO2 glass loaded up with carbon, formed by vapor deposition - so just change the ratio so you've got mostly carbon and oxygen. Just a thought.
From wikipedia entry on Moore's Law: And one (albeit imprecise) measure of computing power is clock speed. Certainly if one held everything else constant, and solved all the attendant problems like heat dissipation, etc. and increased clock speed of a CPU from 2.5 GHz to 500GHz, one would be greatly outpacing Moore's Law.
Only a CS major would think of this. [rolls eyes]
And, no a kilometer is NOT 1024 meters.
There's a big difference between a 150mm fab, a 200mm fab and a 300 mm fab, in terms of capital investment and technology.
Today's 65nm state-of-the-art CMOS processes run on 300mm wafers.
BTW, compound semiconductors (like GaAs, et al.) are typically still made on 150mm wafers or smaller.
The absolute latest technology (extreme UV, not used in production anywhere) research is usually done on 4 inch (100mm) wafers.
No reason to make tools larger when you're only trying to prove the concept, not sell chips. I'm sure IBM did it on 200mm because it was available.
Not vibrational (which would be infrared: that's how IR spectroscopy works), not translational, but rotational, IIRC.
I like all my apps to look and behave the same way.
Yeah? I like to do calculations in Word, and write letters with Excel, too! Cool!
True, DI (deionized) water itself is not very conductive, but getting moisture into the packaging of electronic components does cause problems (e.g. popcorning), and if there is any ionic contamination on surfaces, then the DI water, as soon as it contacts it, is ,well, no longer DI. But, as said, water is a good coolant.
Fluorinert (from 3M) would be a really good solution (no pun intended) except for the cost - IIRC about $300 for a half gallon.
I'm guessing, in response to all those questioning why this was done (or necessary) in the first place, that the only reason for doing this was so the the guy could get written up in the magazine and for the Wow! Cool! factor from his buddies.
In a perfect Communist society, I was born to do something and. . .
A-ha, there's the problem: there never was and never will be a perfect Communist society. Human nature doesn't allow it. People always want to be rewarded for their efforts and not see their labor go to support someone who does nothing when he could. When that happens, the motivation to work vanishes.
of course, on the baron continents, most everyone has his own fortified compound, complete with armies of loyal thugs to protect their master's stores of wealth, including frozen seeds.
Quasi-portable.
from Webster's:
1 : having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes (a quasi corporation) 2 : having a legal status only by operation or construction of law and without reference to intent (a quasi contract) [emphasis mine]
If "ultraviolet" means light that is beyond violet "ultra-portable" means beyond portable. i.e. it's too heavy to be considered portable.
. . .then all the Apple fanboys on /. are vindicated. ;-)
. . .meaning one group working on it used metric and another group used Imperial units and when they put the thing together it shorted out?
. . .and brilliant processes just fall out of the sky, but only once in a century?
No, at least one brilliant person was involved, and I'd guess more.
If your competitor has all the brilliant people and yours are all "ordinary", then as soon as your competitor discovers your (or some other) brilliant process, you're sunk.
I also agree with those who say software development is not the same as assembly line manufacturing, thus things like SPC (statistical process control) don't really apply.
Uh, what company sues to protect the rights of the patent and is uninterested in it for business reasons? If Apple did steal some specific ideas from Creative, then turnabout's fair play!
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Und zat vas nicht zo funny!!
I second the opinion that Notes is terrible as an e-mail client. My company (small, japanese-owned) switched from Outlook to Notes for who knows what reason and I've hated it ever since. Now, I know it could fill the database needs, but we're not really using it much for that. (We've got it bass-ackwards, I suppose.)
Of course MS said this. Duh! What are they supposed to say?
"We hope it's more secure than XP, but we'll just have to wait and see."?
How surprised would you be if he sued to get his job back and won, claiming privacy infringement or some such thing!
Was he also playing the lottery online?
Glad to know where my income tax dollars are going.