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Comment: Re:A transistor made of a single atom? (Score 2) 106

by bmo (#39097307) Attached to: Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom

>Subatomic

No. The limit is a single atom. Not unless someone comes up with a way of making a transistor out of free quarks. We'd have to have some sort of breakthrough in physics to do that and that's not even on the horizon yet.

-theoretical ---we are not even here yet.
-empirical
-demo devices
-prototype devices
-production/commercial devices

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Comment: Re:$1,515,129 (Score 1) 230

by bmo (#39076773) Attached to: SCO vs. IBM Trial Back On Again

Hmm... SCO's in a world of hurt. I'm trying to figure out how they can even get lawyers to work with them at this point, unless they're using a 'We don't get paid unless you get paid!' ambulance chaser-type personal liability attorney.

BS&F are on the hook until the heat death of the universe to provide SCO (as long as it exists) legal counsel. Whether or not SCO can afford it. if they can't, then it will be provided for free.

That's the kind of contract they signed. They were bamboozled by various supporters of SCO. BS&F bet the farm on an illusory 5 billion dollar lawsuit because it was a "sure thing."

Ralph Yarro::

  "We don't care how big you are. If you mess with us, we're going to take you on, even to our utter destruction, whatever occurs. We fear nobody, and we are respecters of no persons."

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Comment: Re:Link to WSJ and not FCC? Follow-up (Score 1) 208

by bmo (#39070783) Attached to: FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls

Yeah, but I just tried the auto-sig (which you are referring to, and by force of habit of 25 years, I typed the --BMO thing. If I turn auto-sigs on, you will see me having --BMO *and* the auto-sig. And I don't think anyone wants that.

Because it's so automatic, that when I want to sign off on my real name in email, about half the time BMO comes out rather than my name. That's how ingrained it is.

Thanks for mentioning my posts. I really don't expect anyone to find them very edifying. They are just my opinions most of the time (except when I link to third party sources).

Comment: Re:lockdown coming. (Score 1) 639

by bmo (#39067925) Attached to: An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8

Guiding people to trusted resources is a good thing.

As opposed to the Microsoft way of doing things where users are *taught* by the ecosystem to just download and run software willy nilly because "you need this codec to view this porn" or some shit like that.

And then there's the warez scene where downloading, installing, and running software from torrent and DDL sites is just like clicking on Viagra ads in spam email. Except the Viagra ad clicker isn't going 'round bragging that he's not paying for software.

And Wintards wonder how they get fucked in the ass by malware writers.

Famous last words "Oh, it's just a false positive"

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Comment: Re:Hear that, MSFT? (Score 1) 639

by bmo (#39067809) Attached to: An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8

But the Family Pack is 50 bux.

Are you really, really cheap, but want legit proprietary software? Get 4 other people, buy the family pack, full license for 10 bucks each. Legal and everything.

Same goes for Microsoft Office family pack for OSX. It's 150. You, and 2 other people split. Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. You pay 50 bux. Legal and everything.

The only place you get raped is the Business edition where Microsoft slaps on Outlook and bumps the price for a *single* license to 200 bux.

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