* Posts by Jason Harvey

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Microsoft sent FCC defective wireless prototype

Jason Harvey

HA HA!

[/nelson]

Fujitsu creates readable, writeable 'nanohole' hard drive

Jason Harvey

Current capacity (lots of math)

1 Inches (in) = 25400000 Nanometers (nm)

so... 1 square inch is 645160000000000 square nm

so now divide that by capacity they're shooting for (1TB - which is 1 followed by a bunch of zeros as far as the hard drive companies are concerned)

so... 645160000000000 / 1000000000000 = 645.16 square nm

now take the square root to find the length that the 13nm pits take up.

this is 25.4nm (which is probably correct since the 13nm pits need some area around that isn't a pit to support the structure and provide that magnetic shielding)

now... do some algebra... 25.4 / 13 = N / 100

13 is the target, 100 is the current working prototype.

N is 195.384615... lots more decimal places... anyhoo...

square this...

we get this...

38175.147928994... again... lots more decimal places... now divide the nm area by this and we have the capacity in bytes.

645160000000000 / 38175.147928994... = 16900000000

16.9 GB. Far cry from 1 TB, but it's getting there.

and hopefully I didn't miss copying a zero somewhere.

Novell owns Unix copyrights after all

Jason Harvey

R.I.P.

SCO shot itself... and now is on it's death bed

'Ads-funded' Microsoft Works pilot barges onto your PC this year

Jason Harvey

Microsoft Works

isn't that like the ultimate oxymoron?

Firefox update fixes bug brace

Jason Harvey

re: thx

umm... link? try clicking on the help menu in firefox and then clicking on "check for updates"... or just wait for a while and firefox will notify you once it does the automatic check.

Brainless civil servant amazes doctors

Jason Harvey

Humans only use 10% anyhow

so this guy must be using most if not all of his brain, while the rest of us are true slackers and only use about 10%

Derbyshire cops get into deep water

Jason Harvey

re: Hobby Bobbie

the clip was good... some comments were ok... but this comment about calling them "hobby bobbies" just about made me fall off my rocker... great stuff

Oz mayor stole cash for Darth Vader voice distorter

Jason Harvey

Needy family + fridge + thrift store =

smaller, older fridge + cash

easy economics. Get an expensive fridge as a gift for a needy family... take fridge to thrift store... sell to store for cash... buy used, working fridge... pocket extra money for food and such.

sounds very plausible to me.

whether or not it happened that way, they'll need to find the "needy family" that got the fridge. if that family doesn't exist, then he's guilty... if they do and they admit to the equation... he's the scapegoat and much fallout will happen.

ah the excitement that is politics.

South Dakota rejoins the execution club

Jason Harvey

average murder rate

nice link... shows Texas' average murder rate as 6.2 and DC's as 35.4

show me again where the murder rate is higher in states with the death penalty?

btw... New Hampshire has the death penalty and a murder rate near the absolute bottom of the list at 1.4. The only 2 that are lower are Vermont at 1.3 and North Dakota at 1.1 (both very cold places in the winter and not very densely populated).

You could also make a correlation that the further south you go, the more murders you find... and then say that the south is full of killers, and you'd be wrong again.

If you include DC in your stats, it blows your argument away since all the rest of the country is below 10, but include DC and then your averages are blown away the other direction.

There are lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics. Remember, numbers can always be manipulated to suit your own purposes.

Google Earth for charidee

Jason Harvey

US based... US company

it takes a lot of paperwork to roll out stuff for non-profits... considering it's a US company... I bet they found it easier to roll out in the US first... I would wager that they may offer other countries' non-profits a break in the not too distant future

Microsoft strips Office from charity PC scheme

Jason Harvey

Open door...

for Open Office

Britney's new album title - can you help?

Jason Harvey

acronyms can be fun... and also...

PEBKAC (pretty much sums up most problems)

User = ID ten T (again... sums up etc etc...)

Brit uploaders teach Yanks man-hug techniques

Jason Harvey

Heh

looks like some peeps need a hug so they can calm down. Tongue in cheek for sure... with a stiff upper lip!

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