Posts by Dillon Pyron 852 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2007
Right now, the yields on 65 nm are both per centage wise less than 90 nm, but yield less die per wafer. So, short term, MS will either be paying more per die, or will be pounding on the vendor for bigger discounts.
Going from 90 nm to 65 nm doesn't really give you that much better of a price reduction. And the cooling issues are nice, but probably won't be much. I doubt they will be $80 worth. MS is just going to cut their profit by 3%.
I agree. Of course, what's happened here in Texas is that players for the Texas lottery have gone down, while players for Mega Millions (for which Tejas gets a smaller cut) have gone up. So the Lottery Commission is pushing the Texas Lottery harder.
Every ad ends with "play responsibly" and the back of every ticket and scratch&sniff has the phone number of GA.
I haven't searched for this on yet. I wonder how you pay for it. With MPack, they wanted a credit card. Probably a stolen credit card. Which usually comes from phishing.
We've almost come full circle. First it was deviant, skillful hackers, then skiddies, then criminals, then deviant, skillful hackers and now skiddies again.
I get more junk faxes with these than I can count. I send one copy to the SEC and another to a firm that tracks down junk faxes for me. So far I've made about $4500 on them. But it's mostly the insurance and travel schemes.
There's one born every minute. You can't con and honest man.
The plane was rolled out on 7/8/7 (at least according to American reckoning).
The Bear was a turboprop that had HUGE fuel tanks. It wasn't capable of mid air refueling, which was its weak point. But it could fly from the USSR to most of the US, deliver its payload and return. It was flying at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The USAF experimented with Orion, but the "engine" was incredibly cranky and there were no solutions in sight at the time. I believe, however, that this was designed as a launch vehicle for rockets rather than and aircraft engine. Must look it up during my next test.
The USAF has been experimenting for years with replacement engines for the B52. The "fuel efficiency" of those almost 60 year old turbojets is terrible. The Air Force Times recently had an article about a B52 that was now being flown by the grandson of the original piolt. And who's father had also flown the same plane. That's how old those suckers are. And the Air Force says they are good for another 20 years or so.
Both the RR and the GE engines are within a miniscule amount in fuel efficiency. The PW engines weren't up to the task. But PW is getting lots of business on the small end, with several of the personal jets (Eclipse, Piper Mustang, etc).
I'm using iSCSI at work. It's nice, at 1Gb it's very quick (at 10Gb it's blazing). With 15000 rpm SAS drives it's great. Problem is, it's not cheap. The eSATA is aimed at a single machine. Two different solutions. But at home I have a home built NAS. Right now it has a 300 GB drive. I'm about to replace that with a 750 or wait a little longer and get a 1 TB drive. "That will be all the disk I ever need". (Also said when I bought a 10 GB drive for my desk top).
Now I've heard about people building iSCSI home solutions using a Linux box, but that's a technical solution beyond the means of most users.
I just heard where the Blackstone Group bought Hilton. Apparently they're paying $26 B for her. I wonder which sheik they'll be selling her to.
Oh, wait, different Paris Hilton. Never mind. (I'd pay $26 for her, if only to get her off the street).
Oh yeah, lose ICT. And boffin. I notice you haven't used mobo in a few years.
They being spammers. You don't actually think those are legitimate email addresses they use? I'm postmaster on a couple of domains and I get bounces to nonexistent email addresses (from equally nonexistent email addresses that the spammers seem to have gotten from somewhere). Come on. telnet to port 25 and go from there. There are so many open relays still out there. Or set up your own smtp server. Something like 80% of the bots I've looked at have one.
At the rate MS is "cranking" these out, there should be a good dozen out when they release a new OS that will "totally blow away" Vista, requiring only 4 GB of memory and 2 TB of disk and an HD-DVD (not Blu Ray) drive.
And my quad dual core Opteron with 16 GB won't be enough to run Windows Server 2010. By then you'll need a quad 16 core 128 bit CPU with 16 GB of L1 cache (I almost spelled that cash, which might also be the case). Or I could be running Linux 5.8 on my PIII.
Right now I get four broadcast channels in HD (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC) and some cable only (well, satellite, too) channels (A&E, Universal, TNT, Discover HD among others). If I wanted, I could get about a dozen more from HBO, Cinemax and the Movie Channel, plus HDNet, ESPN HD and a few others, all for "a few dollars more a month". Sounds like I get more HD then y'all get total. Of course, I'm paying more.
But our iPhones are only $500, your's will be 500 pounds (and the eurotrash will probably pay 800 euros). Gotta love that arbitrary exchange rate.
All the service providers want to either be the content provider (which telco was it that blocked ring tones from outside suppliers? Verizon?) or have an exclusive with a content provider (to draw in more subscribers). All the content providers want to avoid dealing with the service providers, as they want access to the most people. It's a constant war. Much the same as is going on in broadband and net neutrality. The telcos an cable companies don't mind high bandwidth applications getting on for free, just as long as the apps are their's.
I'm surprised the service carriers object so much. USA network offers a SMS product for Psych and Monk (when are we going to get new episodes?). Sign up and get up to 5 messages a week with all sorts of "bonuses". At between 10 and 15 cents a pop (with the media packages, these can still add up), that's $4-6 a month if you sign up for both show. Add the contests from Coke and Pepsi, with the spam they send and before you know it you have a huge text bill.
And don't get me started on teenage girls. Thank God I don't have any, they'd never make it to college. Either I couldn't afford it or they'd be locked away.
I have access to 3G on AT&T. I fail to see why Apple didn't go that route. I currently have a 2 1/2 year old Moto V551 (okay, 2 year old, I went diving with it in my pocket. The phone isn't any good when you take it to 65 feet, but the SIM worked). It does everything I need. AT&T offered me a "first in queue" chance at two iPhones (two lines). I passed. Although, if I want a smartphone, WM doesn't get very high marks, either.
It's the same with any consumer product in the last 20 odd years. Start futzing with it and the warranty is no good. But the people cracking them open are probably more competent than the people on the other end of the support phone.
Back in the 1980s, I was in DEC software services (DEC SWS, pronounced deck swiss). We had a customer order the microcode for a VAX 11/780. We canceled their software and hardware support contracts. They just said "sure".
Aren't these the same courts that want to try Sir Frank in Ayrton Senna's death? Half media whore, half witch hunter.
I'm sure Ferrari is no stranger to industrial espionage.
Given the less than sterling performance of Ferrari this year, one of two things happened. The value of the material wasn't particularly high. Or, whoever took it left no evidence of it ever existing so that Ferrari couldn't use it.
Lots of different types of welding. Oxy-acetylene, stick, TIG, MIG. There there's the exotic stuff. Lots of ways to die. TIG and MIG use lots of high frequency electricity and might have caused something.
The shop where I weld on my race car has a warning not to have cell phones, pagers, cigarette lighters and other things in your pockets when welding or near welders. Of course they also have a zero tolerance policy on eye protection. Hasn't been an accident there since they opened in 1990.
Come on, how many of you cooked up a few explosives in your high school chemistry lab? I know of a couple of ways to make nitroglycerin and TNT and have the recipe for semtex or torpex. I've made plenty of thermite and a few pounds of anfo. I've also held a TS and more for over 25 years. Which, in the eyes of some foreign governments, makes me a terrorist.
Oh yeah, I know how to make a small atomic weapon. It's not the legal details, it's the technical ones.
Are they also prosecuting the buyers? Were the buyers the Feebs, in which case this smells of entrapment.
I agree with another poster, shouldn't DirectTV be prosecuted for beaming porn into Utah?
Since when has plot had anything to do with obscene? I've seen many movies that were devoid of plot or acting. I've wanted my money back, but I've never seen those theaters prosecuted. Should have prosecuted Ang Lee for The Hulk. I guess the millions who stayed home punished him.
Couldn't find much that might be considered "libelous". Plenty of claims from dotworlds. And plenty of places where he has left comments on a site in the form of his press release. Let's just say that I've replied in kind. I won't say what I wrote, since the UK's libel laws might get the Reg in trouble. But I'm sure Retkin would find them libelous.
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