You should listen to the This American Life program Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory? That's the surprising thing about these huge factories. There is no automation. Full of workers, and totally quiet - no machines. Why pay for automation when you can get super cheap labor to put the damn things together by hand?
Interesting that they specifically ban "string or wind instruments", but not percussion instruments or electronic instruments, under the umbrella of "prohibiting certain annoyances by musical instruments". If I'm going to be annoyed by musical instruments, percussion is at least as likely to do so as string or wind instruments.
He may have been right. That does not make him Copernicus. Copernicus' leap was *huge* compared to the leap involved in saying "Pluto is one of a bunch of objects in the outer solar system, not in the same category as the eight things now classified planets." BTW, I agree with the astronomer who pointed out the "Star Trek definition" of a planet, i.e. the Enterprise goes into orbit around a body and it comes up on the screen and everyone can look at it and *see* that it is a planet. You never saw Spock scanning the rest of the star system to look for other debris to decide whether or not the object had "gravitationally cleared its surroundings" and was therefore worthy of being called a planet. You could just tell by looking at it.
Yeah, the fabs really want 100+ wafers/hr, and I'm not sure about the debris problems with DPP EUV sources being solved, but brightness seems to be getting there, and to totally switch technologies seems like a big risk. I know, sunk cost fallacy and all that...
All that's true, but occasionally we (I was a submariner back in the late 1980s-early 1990s) will intentionally discharge a small amount of primary coolant into the ocean, e.g. to correct a chemistry imbalance. It does not contain fuel or fission products, but it is somewhat radioactive (e.g. activated corrosion products), and some of the radioactivity is moderately long-lived (e.g. Co-60, half-life=5.27 yrs.) Again, even a small part of the ocean is really big compared to amount of stuff discharged.
Sublimation is going from solid straight to gas. Like when the old ice cubes in your freezer ice trays shrink after months. Evaporation is all that is needed here.
In fact, if you had water enriched with helium, I'm sure you could successfully market it as some life-enhancing beverage. "makes you lighter than air!"
I believe you are correct, but one should keep in mind that simply having a higher atomic number (number of protons and therefore number of electrons in a neutral atom) does not mean a higher atomic radius. In fact, atomic radii decrease as one goes from left to right on a given row on the periodic table. see http://www.webelements.com/helium/atom_sizes.html
IIRC ASML already claims to have an EUV scanner capable of 69 wafers per hour throughput, using discharge-produced (tin?) plasma.
I really doubt any company is going to want to spend a ton more cash and several years to get ANOTHER method of EUV imaging working after all the time and $$ it has taken to get where we are today.
This is what passes for +5 Insightful? What has Neil Degrasse Tyson discovered that is on par with Copernicus? Really. He is a good science popularizer, but on the same level as Copernicus? That's insane.
When GP said "badge", he was referring to, or meant, TLD (thermoluminescent dosimeter), as GGP said. That isn't something you can make a fake and turn in to get it read. A TLD uses a doped calcium fluoride (to measure gamma and neutron dose) or lithium fluoride (to measure just neutron dose) crystal encapsulated in glass with a heating coil wrapped around it. It accumulates the radiation exposure as energy in the crystal lattice which is released as light when the wire is heated by current heating the crystal. The light given off is integrated and that "area under the curve" gives the radiation exposure since the TLD was last read. We used to do it at the end of every month when I was an Engineering Lab Tech in the Nuclear Navy. As was suggested, one could keep their TLD shielded or off their person while working in radiation areas in order to falsify the exposure. A "badge" could mean a film badge, which radiology technicians etc. wear. They measure gamma (x-ray) but not neutron dose, so they are not used by nuclear power workers.
If you're referring to me, that's not what I said. I said if they want others to know what they mean, they don't. (e.g. if they post "$6.00" on Slashdot, a US-based website, and expect readers to understand they mean $6 CDN, they are foolish). And yes, I've been outside the US: UK, Hong Kong, Africa, Japan... and yes, even Canada.
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You should listen to the This American Life program Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory?
That's the surprising thing about these huge factories. There is no automation. Full of workers, and totally quiet - no machines. Why pay for automation when you can get super cheap labor to put the damn things together by hand?
That's just it. Too much education, and people don't want to do mindless assembly line work. Not lack of education.
"No, god damn it!"
"God damned phone!"
How about "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain"?
Interesting that they specifically ban "string or wind instruments", but not percussion instruments or electronic instruments, under the umbrella of "prohibiting certain annoyances by musical instruments".
If I'm going to be annoyed by musical instruments, percussion is at least as likely to do so as string or wind instruments.
He may have been right. That does not make him Copernicus.
Copernicus' leap was *huge* compared to the leap involved in saying "Pluto is one of a bunch of objects in the outer solar system, not in the same category as the eight things now classified planets."
BTW, I agree with the astronomer who pointed out the "Star Trek definition" of a planet, i.e. the Enterprise goes into orbit around a body and it comes up on the screen and everyone can look at it and *see* that it is a planet. You never saw Spock scanning the rest of the star system to look for other debris to decide whether or not the object had "gravitationally cleared its surroundings" and was therefore worthy of being called a planet. You could just tell by looking at it.
P=NP is always true iff N=1.
Yeah, the fabs really want 100+ wafers/hr, and I'm not sure about the debris problems with DPP EUV sources being solved, but brightness seems to be getting there, and to totally switch technologies seems like a big risk. I know, sunk cost fallacy and all that...
So would you have been saying it BECAUSE he hadn't said it, or would have just been a coincidence?
All that's true, but occasionally we (I was a submariner back in the late 1980s-early 1990s) will intentionally discharge a small amount of primary coolant into the ocean, e.g. to correct a chemistry imbalance.
It does not contain fuel or fission products, but it is somewhat radioactive (e.g. activated corrosion products), and some of the radioactivity is moderately long-lived (e.g. Co-60, half-life=5.27 yrs.)
Again, even a small part of the ocean is really big compared to amount of stuff discharged.
That's what your going to do to desalinate water? Let sea ice sublimate (and collect the vapor and condense it)?
Good luck with that.
"...energy is lost entering the atmosphere..."
Oh great, so it could contribute to global warming.
Sublimation is going from solid straight to gas. Like when the old ice cubes in your freezer ice trays shrink after months.
Evaporation is all that is needed here.
In fact, if you had water enriched with helium, I'm sure you could successfully market it as some life-enhancing beverage. "makes you lighter than air!"
I believe you are correct, but one should keep in mind that simply having a higher atomic number (number of protons and therefore number of electrons in a neutral atom) does not mean a higher atomic radius. In fact, atomic radii decrease as one goes from left to right on a given row on the periodic table.
see http://www.webelements.com/helium/atom_sizes.html
And it's not going to be THAT many invitations. I mean, how many people can the basement even HOLD?
IIRC ASML already claims to have an EUV scanner capable of 69 wafers per hour throughput, using discharge-produced (tin?) plasma.
I really doubt any company is going to want to spend a ton more cash and several years to get ANOTHER method of EUV imaging working after all the time and $$ it has taken to get where we are today.
but only for N=1, obviously.
This is what passes for +5 Insightful? What has Neil Degrasse Tyson discovered that is on par with Copernicus? Really. He is a good science popularizer, but on the same level as Copernicus? That's insane.
Interesting. Was it because the slaves were considered more valuable, or because they were considered less intelligent/competent/skilled?
When GP said "badge", he was referring to, or meant, TLD (thermoluminescent dosimeter), as GGP said. That isn't something you can make a fake and turn in to get it read. A TLD uses a doped calcium fluoride (to measure gamma and neutron dose) or lithium fluoride (to measure just neutron dose) crystal encapsulated in glass with a heating coil wrapped around it. It accumulates the radiation exposure as energy in the crystal lattice which is released as light when the wire is heated by current heating the crystal. The light given off is integrated and that "area under the curve" gives the radiation exposure since the TLD was last read. We used to do it at the end of every month when I was an Engineering Lab Tech in the Nuclear Navy.
As was suggested, one could keep their TLD shielded or off their person while working in radiation areas in order to falsify the exposure.
A "badge" could mean a film badge, which radiology technicians etc. wear. They measure gamma (x-ray) but not neutron dose, so they are not used by nuclear power workers.
O tsukare sama deshita.
"Chanted down"? Is that a new sentence for people convicted of crimes, now?
What does the adjective "Power-Kill" mean?
but only to my neighbor.
My SSID is "No_Shes_Not"... and his is "My_Wife_Is_Hot".
I don't even know who it is, so I don't really know what she looks like.
True story.
If you're referring to me, that's not what I said.
I said if they want others to know what they mean, they don't.
(e.g. if they post "$6.00" on Slashdot, a US-based website, and expect readers to understand they mean $6 CDN, they are foolish).
And yes, I've been outside the US: UK, Hong Kong, Africa, Japan... and yes, even Canada.