Intel has recently been talking about using GaAs on future processes. Everything old is new again.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/intel-talks-about-8-nanometer-nodes-for.html

CMOS process shrinks will probably poop out around 2020. Intel claims to have things figured out until 8nm. When the CMOS process shrinks cease there will be no more massive numbers of "free" transistors every year. Intel and other will likely start playing with gallium arsenide and other stuff to try to squeeze more performance out of stagnated process sizes. Once those tricks are played out it could very well be the end until radical new alternative technology is developed.

Gotta love Slashdotters who think they know you inside and out after reading one post. I graduated from one of the top Computer Engineering programs in the world and with very good grades. I ended up going into software after graduation but I did study computer architecture extensively in college, and designed and built a working CPU for my senior design project.

The "cores" in Bulldozer are not your typical first-class x86 core. Bulldozer "cores" are worth 2/3 of a modern x86 core. The 6200 is more like a 10 core. Add to that the crappy IPC and I'm not impressed.

I was excited about Bulldozer before it was released. It's not often that CPU makers take chances on radical new architectures. Too bad this one turned out to be a huge pile of fail.

From the link in the parent:

"The brain is not good to eat. Removing the tongue and eyes, skinning the head, and placing it outside in a wire cage may be effective. The cage allows small scavengers such as ants and maggots to cleanse the flesh from the bones, while preventing it being carried off by larger scavengers, such as dogs and children."

Finally, a way to keep the neighborhood kids from making off with my skulls!

They are probably on high quality soy isolates. Basically, they take soy and filter the hell out of it to get a decent amount of high quality protein. I would like to see vegan powerlifters who eat nothing but unprocessed foods. Every vegan I've ever seen has been scrawny as hell. I respect their moral stance but I believe that their diet is unnatural for humans and substandard as a result.

You're assuming that what is true where you live is true everywhere. There are MANY places in the USA where one can inexpensively purchase 100% grassfed beef. Huge swaths of the US are nothing but grassland. I can buy 100% grassfed beef in my city for about double the price of factory farm beef. When one drives from my city to the other big city in my state they encounter nothing but pasture and farmland for about six hours and that's traveling at 70mph or so.

It's fairly obvious that racial problems in the US will never be fixed. There is too much bad blood on both sides for it to ever go away. It's like an abusive couple who have gone through a really ugly divorce trying to re-marry and live happily ever after.

I have a "held a door for a black guy" story too! I was leaving the mall. I turned around before closing the door to see if someone else was behind. There was a giant black dude about 10-15 feet away. He was holding a baby in his arms. I waited 10-20 seconds for him to get to the door and held it open until he was through. The guy turned and said "thanks." The look on his face was one of grateful bewilderment. He was grateful but he couldn't believe what had happened. We live in fairly segregated city with a ton of racism so I completely empathize with the guy. He never thought some young white dude would stop and hold the door for him and his baby.

The thing you can take from my story and yours is that people are people regardless of color, race, etc. A lot of black people are assholes (the guy in your story). A lot of white people are assholes. Some black people are awesome. Some white people are awesome. People are people are people.

Oh so wrong! My dinner is ready so I will lazily cut&paste from Wikipedia:

"Although the term citizens of color was used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963, and other uses date to as early as 1793, people of color did not gain prominence for many years.[6][7] Influenced by radical theorists like Frantz Fanon, racial justice activists in the U.S. began to use the term people of color in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was in wide circulation.[8] Both anti-racist activists and academics sought to move understandings of race beyond the black-white binary then prevalent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_color

I don't think that's a race thing. All of the adults in my nearly 100% white suburbs were saying the exact same thing when I was growing up. I was told it was wasted time. Teachers didn't want me typing up papers on my computer. They asked "How will you do it in the real world when you don't have your computer there to do it all for you?" One professor at my very expensive private university said "The internet will never amount to anything. It's a toy for computer geeks." The older generation really got caught with their pants down on the whole computer thing.

This describes me too. Although it was an Atari 800, not a VIC-20.

What I know about VC's:

#1 They love money

#2 They never have enough money

#3 Nothing much else matters to them in this life other than acquiring more money

Given the above, I believe that most VC's would gladly suck a bag of dicks if it meant an additional $1B in their bank account. I assume that funding a black guy's tech firm is much more pleasant than sucking a bag of dicks. My conclusion is that VC's would be happy to fund black tech firms, or asian tech firms, or latino tech firms if they thought they could make a bunch of money from doing so.

The open question is whether or not VC's underestimate the ability of black/asian/latino firms to make them a ton of cash.

Fuck! There goes another hobby. Chemistry, Rocketry, RC Planes... I wonder which geeky hobby is next up to be regulated into oblivion.

+1

I wouldn't go back to the old gnome if you paid me.