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721.
by ableal 14y ago
Basically, yes. Those are silicon chips, with alternate layers of glass (SiO2) and metal deposited on top. The metal layers connect transistors that were built in the silicon chip proper in the first steps of fabrication. They are called i
722.
by ableal 14y ago
Amusingly, 'chinese' appears twice in the top-50 languages. (Besides 'mandarin' and other spoken chinese languages.)
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Nvidia’s telegraphs Tegra’s woes at CES(semiaccurate.com)
5 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
724.
by ableal 14y ago
Nanoscale is fun. A measly voltage of 1 Volt across a gap of 100 nm means there's an electric field of 10 MV/m. It's kind of hard to keep electrically charged particles, such as electrons, from moving under that kind of stimulus. If memory
725.
by ableal 14y ago
Fascinating. At the end there's a link to an earlier Fiat I did not know had existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Turbina (the photo reminded me of something familiar, took me a bit to figure out it was a guppy fish ;-)
726.
by ableal 14y ago
"When Amazon’s EC2 and S3 web services arrived in 2006, they changed the computing business. Big server makers — most noticeably Sun Microsystems — had been tinkering with the idea of selling computer power in much the same way that utilit
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by ableal 14y ago
It's unborked.
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May Itanium Rest in Peace, Almost(pcmag.com)
3 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
729.
Three Things That Should Trouble Apple [2012](kickingbear.com)
1 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
730.
by ableal 14y ago
Is the illustrator making some subtle point with those three locked-up gears that cannot possibly move? P.S. Back in the it day was not only IBM that "was leery of a single vendor supplying the vital CPU." Having a second source for parts
731.
by ableal 14y ago
"That’s what I hated about school - it felt like such a waste of time, learning stuff that I was probably going to forget." Some people go to gyms, where they exert themselves pointlessly - they're not drawing water, generating electricit
732.
by ableal 14y ago
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_%28novel%29 , not part of the half dozen KV books I've read either ] I'd also guess it's not the ability to the the job that's in question, it's the will to do it ethically. Would you trust the
733.
by ableal 14y ago
Interesting list. I've read most books in it. There's a bit too much listening to literary critics in there - e.g. Mieville is skilled writing, but it is not SF - not really. Add in Neal Asher for the 2000s. Breakneck action space opera, wi
734.
by ableal 14y ago
[ http://them0vieblog.com/2012/03/28/the-thick-of-it-series-ii... , in case someone else is also curious]
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Accidental Empires, Part 1 — Looking back at a golden era(cringely.com)
1 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
736.
by ableal 14y ago
> in my experience, "Open network" never means "just connect and it will work". At best, you have to agree to a few terms of service Nope, an office/research park around here has one, in the central building with restaurants and shops,
737.
by ableal 14y ago
Oops. Meant for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5126514
738.
by ableal 14y ago
Your URL had a double t. It (now) leads to the same URL and page as this submission. (Possibly someone changed their mind about the wordplay verbing the "Automattic" noun.)
739.
by ableal 14y ago
Your URL had a double t. It (now) leads to the same URL and page as this submission.
740.
by ableal 14y ago
“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.” There's also the litmus test of the Wodehouse phrase: "The unpleasant, acrid smel
741.
by ableal 14y ago
Do the ads in print or broadcast radio/TV pay much more than that? Seems that a Super Bowl spot goes for about 4 million USD, reaching 100+ million viewers [1] - that comes out as about 40 bucks per thousand impressions, but this "impressio
742.
by ableal 14y ago
Good catch, I missed that. Probably still some way off from having PDKs (physical design kits) and a pricing sheet for Nvidia or other random fabless design shops to make their chips.
743.
by ableal 14y ago
The interesting question is whether Intel is going to sell fab capacity to third parties. Given the umpteen billions they have invested in semiconductor fabrication plants, and the lack of sales of their own chips ...
744.
by ableal 14y ago
For those tuning in now, the "usual" is probably best synthesized in Tim Bray's 'sharecroppers' piece of ten years ago: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl...
745.
by ableal 14y ago
The west coast of Europe has a big advantage over that of the USA: the Gulf stream. It's nice to have an ocean-sized "hot water bottle", running at about 15C in winter. (Also: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp )
746.
by ableal 14y ago
(Footnote 1:) "Why don't we have a word for this? By "unit of hacking", I mean the work that goes on between starting to hack on a change-set and doing a commit." Hackit. As a unit, Ht, similar to Hz for Hertz. (I was going to add it woul
747.
by ableal 14y ago
This seems a nice article on pricing strategies: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/37737/Secrets-Of-Freemi... Strangely, as a submission here (not by me), it got killed yesterday. I looked it over when it came up, and when I went to jo
748.
by ableal 14y ago
> Once you're done You can also rip out and burn each page as you go along, as a Spanish writer had his protagonist do habitually. I shuddered the first time I came across that, but it may have its advantages ... (Detective Pepe Carvalh
749.
by ableal 14y ago
The original "Omit needless words" seems to have mutated in the wild: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-08/news/091107024... 'A reader of "The Elements of Style" once sent E. B. White a clipping of a book review that misquoted W
750.
by ableal 14y ago
I saw the pictures taken in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, where they had to have street lights on at noon in winter. I also saw the soot-incrusted facade of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library before it was sandblasted clean in the late 1980s. (By t

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