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New manufacturing processes are typically tested by producing SRAM cells, because they're a relatively typical structure and big arrays of SRAM cells are easily tested to measure the defect rate.

Bridgekeeper: Stop. What is your name?
Galahad: Sir Galahad of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What is your quest?
Galahad: I seek the Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What is your favourite colour?
Galahad: Blue. No, yel...

"We have to filter P2P to solve network congestion"--Bell Canada.

Where is the accountability for this kind of thing? Is it a matter of the information not being readily available, or is it just that people don't bother to do the research and find out just who is lining their leaders' pockets?

When a presidential candidate simply speaking about not taking money from lobbyists is considered a "bold move" by many in the media, it becomes terribly difficult to have faith in any of our political leaders, at least for me.

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9: No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

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I think that would be an ideal setup to run Vista on. I heard that with SP1 you might only need half of the equipment you currently have.

"So, what would be the coolest and most far out thing you would do with this kind of hardware?"

Instead of pissing around with stuff that may not go anywhere other than a few giggles over lunch.

Why not just rent, or lend it out to people who don't have the funding or equipment that could use this cluster for a better purpose than "playing around"?

Just saying...

I heard Microsoft burned every copy of Windows-ME. Along with all their source-code. That way, they are committed to using the same binaries forever.

Zymergy writes "A Ph.D. thesis submission entitled "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners" was defended today buy its author, David Levy, at The University of Maastricht (Netherlands). His thesis argues for likely evolution of human-robot relationships, including sexuality and marriage. Trends in human behavior, objects of their affection, sexual practices, and human attitudes were part of his research. Conclusions were based on hundreds of publications covering the fields of sociology, psychology, sexology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and other scientific research.
Links:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20071011-122541-6886&show_article=1
http://www.unimaas.nl/default.asp?template=overig/nieuws.htm&fac=um%20Algemeen&nid=03WQJ6N2GUN141N5Q615&id=niks&taal=en
http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2007/10/11/r031.htm"

An anonymous reader writes "The Northwest Passage, a normally ice-locked shortcut between Europe and Asia, is now passable for the first time in recorded history reports the European Space Agency. Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre said in the article: 'We have seen the ice-covered area drop to just around 3 million sq km which is about 1 million sq km less than the previous minima of 2005 and 2006. There has been a reduction of the ice cover over the last 10 years of about 100 000 sq km per year on average, so a drop of 1 million sq km in just one year is extreme.'"

An anonymous reader writes "French chemist and cook Hervé This maintains his quest to find the scientific precision behind great tasting food. Chef This is just one of a growing number of cooks that approaches food from a scientific perspective; making recipes in a lab instead of in the kitchen. The difference is that This was one of the pioneers of the field. 'This and a colleague, the late Oxford physicist Nicholas Kurti, conducted the experiments in their spare time. In 1988, the pair coined a term to describe their nascent field: molecular gastronomy. The name has since been applied to the kitchen wizardry of chefs like el Bulli's Ferran Adria and Alinea's Grant Achatz. But This is interested in basic culinary knowledge -- not flashy preparations -- and has continued to accumulate his precisions, which now number some 25,000.'"