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Boss, we Have a Problem: Sid Harth
31/08/2010 //0
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B: “A, gaddhe, not again, two times in a row, in a single day. Are you
going crazy or something? What problem did frighten you this time?
just a little while ago, you were, practically throwing up on the
Indian scientific breakthru.
You woke me up in the middle of my ‘kriya yoga,’ oops, ‘karma yoga’
crying wolf. There ain’t no scientific breakthru when some Gujju real
estate venture capitalists decide to erect a multi-storey,
mechanically sound and profound parking garage, of all the goddamned
places as in east Andheri in Bombay.
My underground, oops, overground, oops, noground secret investigators
have found out that those Gujju rats are a bunch of flim-flam, con
artists, not scientists.
Multistorey garages, in the western world, including but not limited
to, American city like New York, NY were there before a bunch of
Amsterdam capitalists bought the Manhatten island for about $25.00.
Not in cash, there were no dollars invented by Dutch scientists, as
yet.
Some useless bobbles, beads and some papaya and poppy seeds.”
A: ” Boss, may Allah be praised. may all the thirty three million,
oops, crores of holy Hindu gods be praised. Eureka.”
B: “Euw! You mean the sister of that blond bimbo, Monika? The one who
sucked president Bill Clinton’s dick?”
A: ” May all Christian gods be praised. May some more potent and
powerful Jewish gods be praised. No Boss, not Monika, Eureka. It was a
great Greek scientist, Archemedes, who found it firstt.”
B: ” I think, A, you are losing your mind. There ain’t no Greeky-
Freaky scientists. All pure, oops, pure safron science comes form our
holy Hindu hoodlumland, India, that is.”
A: “Pardon my French Boss, silli vous play. All bad science, like
erecting a multi-storey mechanically proficient parking gagage in east
Andheri, Bombay Bharat. However, to be honest, to be frank and
forthright in giving credit where it is due, one Greek scientist
Archemedes, found it.”
B: “Found what A? parking garage science or Eureka?”
A: “The real and original science, Boss. Not the fake Gujju rat
science. In Greek, \”Eureka!\” means \”I have found it!\” A
mathematician named Archimedes coined the term after being stimulated
in a hot tub.”
B: “Tell me all about this Greek goddamned Eureka science. Make it,
tell it all. Like American bimbos, writing their autobiographies,
oops, no bimbo writes an autobiography by herself. She, oops, her
press agent hires a ghost writer to write it for her. In such
autobiographies, alleged bimbo bares her soul, oops, her body, oops,
her naked body to her ghost writer. This real ghost writer, then
composes a very thrilling literature, a so called ‘Tell it all.”
A: “Boss, you are amazing. Truely and sincerely, amazing. Do you get
all your intelligence, oops, amazing intelligence from Amazon dot com”
B: “Goddammit, A. Not on Amazon dot commies. From our sacred, holy
Hindu scriptures. From Bhagvad Gita.”
A: “Boss, is Bhagvad, Gee, oops, Gita a science, art, philosophy or a
Brahmin con game? Pray tell.”
B: “My very dear and very nearly stupid, ‘chela,’ disciple, tell it
all?”
A: “Yes, Boss. Just like from horse’ mouth like.”
B: “Oops, the lights gone again. For the third time in a day. That’s
real holy Hindu scientific discovery. They can’t find their ass with
their own two hands, much less science.”
The End.
Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chip
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: August 30, 2010
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this
week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued
rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for
the consumer electronics revolution.
Related
Times Topic: Computer Chips
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In recent years the limits of physics and finance faced by chip makers
had loomed so large that experts feared a slowdown in the pace of
miniaturization that would act like a brake on the ability to pack
ever more power into ever smaller devices like laptops, smartphones
and digital cameras.
But the new announcements, along with competing technologies being
pursued by companies like IBM and Intel, offer hope that the brake
will not be applied any time soon.
In one of the two new developments, Rice researchers are reporting in
Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that they
have succeeded in building reliable small digital switches — an
essential part of computer memory — that could shrink to a
significantly smaller scale than is possible using conventional
methods.
More important, the advance is based on silicon oxide, one of the
basic building blocks of today’s chip industry, thus easing a move
toward commercialization. The scientists said that PrivaTran, a Texas
startup company, has made experimental chips using the technique that
can store and retrieve information.
These chips store only 1,000 bits of data, but if the new technology
fulfills the promise its inventors see, single chips that store as
much as today’s highest capacity disk drives could be possible in five
years. The new method involves filaments as thin as five nanometers in
width — thinner than what the industry hopes to achieve by the end of
the decade using standard techniques. The initial discovery was made
by Jun Yao, a graduate researcher at Rice. Mr. Yao said he stumbled on
the switch by accident.
Separately, H.P. is to announce on Tuesday that it will enter into a
commercial partnership with a major semiconductor company to produce a
related technology that also has the potential of pushing computer
data storage to astronomical densities in the next decade. H.P. and
the Rice scientists are making what are called memristors, or memory
resistors, switches that retain information without a source of
power.
“There are a lot of new technologies pawing for attention,” said
Richard Doherty, president of the Envisioneering Group, a consumer
electronics market research company in Seaford, N.Y. “When you get
down to these scales, you’re talking about the ability to store
hundreds of movies on a single chip.”
The announcements are significant in part because they indicate that
the chip industry may find a way to preserve the validity of Moore’s
Law. Formulated in 1965 by Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, the
law is an observation that the industry has the ability to roughly
double the number of transistors that can be printed on a wafer of
silicon every 18 months.
That has been the basis for vast improvements in technological and
economic capacities in the past four and a half decades. But industry
consensus had shifted in recent years to a widespread belief that the
end of physical progress in shrinking the size modern semiconductors
was imminent. Chip makers are now confronted by such severe physical
and financial challenges that they are spending $4 billion or more for
each new advanced chip-making factory.
I.B.M., Intel and other companies are already pursuing a competing
technology called phase-change memory, which uses heat to transform a
glassy material from an amorphous state to a crystalline one and
back.
Phase-change memory has been the most promising technology for so-
called flash chips, which retain information after power is switched
off.
The flash memory industry has used a number of approaches to keep up
with Moore’s law without having a new technology. But it is as if the
industry has been speeding toward a wall, without a way to get over
it.
To keep up speed on the way to the wall, the industry has begun
building three-dimensional chips by stacking circuits on top of one
another to increase densities. It has also found ways to get single
transistors to store more information. But these methods would not be
enough in the long run.
The new technology being pursued by H.P. and Rice is thought to be a
dark horse by industry powerhouses like Intel, I.B.M., Numonyx and
Samsung. Researchers at those competing companies said that the
phenomenon exploited by the Rice scientists had been seen in the
literature as early as the 1960s.
“This is something that I.B.M. studied before and which is still in
the research stage,” said Charles Lam, an I.B.M. specialist in
semiconductor memories.
H.P. has for several years been making claims that its memristor
technology can compete with traditional transistors, but the company
will report this week that it is now more confident that its
technology can compete commercially in the future.
In contrast, the Rice advance must still be proved. Acknowledging that
researchers must overcome skepticism because silicon oxide has been
known as an insulator by the industry until now, Jim Tour, a
nanomaterials specialist at Rice said he believed the industry would
have to look seriously at the research team’s new approach.
“It’s a hard sell, because at first it’s obvious it won’t work,” he
said. “But my hope is that this is so simple they will have to put it
in their portfolio to explore.”
…and I am Sid Harth
Categories News, Views and Reviews
Boss, we Have a Problem: Sid Harth
31/08/2010 //0
http://cogitoergosum.co.cc/2010/08/31/boss-we-have-a-problem-sid-harth-3/
B: “A, gaddhe, not again, two times in a row, in a single day. Are you
going crazy or something? What problem did frighten you this time?
just a little while ago, you were, practically throwing up on the
Indian scientific breakthru.
You woke me up in the middle of my ‘kriya yoga,’ oops, ‘karma yoga’
crying wolf. There ain’t no scientific breakthru when some Gujju real
estate venture capitalists decide to erect a multi-storey,
mechanically sound and profound parking garage, of all the goddamned
places as in east Andheri in Bombay.
My underground, oops, overground, oops, noground secret investigators
have found out that those Gujju rats are a bunch of flim-flam, con
artists, not scientists.
Multistorey garages, in the western world, including but not limited
to, American city like New York, NY were there before a bunch of
Amsterdam capitalists bought the Manhatten island for about $25.00.
Not in cash, there were no dollars invented by Dutch scientists, as
yet.
Some useless bobbles, beads and some papaya and poppy seeds.”
A: ” Boss, may Allah be praised. may all the thirty three million,
oops, crores of holy Hindu gods be praised. Eureka.”
B: “Euw! You mean the sister of that blond bimbo, Monika? The one who
sucked president Bill Clinton’s dick?”
A: ” May all Christian gods be praised. May some more potent and
powerful Jewish gods be praised. No Boss, not Monika, Eureka. It was a
great Greek scientist, Archemedes, who found it firstt.”
B: ” I think, A, you are losing your mind. There ain’t no Greeky-
Freaky scientists. All pure, oops, pure safron science comes form our
holy Hindu hoodlumland, India, that is.”
A: “Pardon my French Boss, silli vous play. All bad science, like
erecting a multi-storey mechanically proficient parking gagage in east
Andheri, Bombay Bharat. However, to be honest, to be frank and
forthright in giving credit where it is due, one Greek scientist
Archemedes, found it.”
B: “Found what A? parking garage science or Eureka?”
A: “The real and original science, Boss. Not the fake Gujju rat
science. In Greek, \”Eureka!\” means \”I have found it!\” A
mathematician named Archimedes coined the term after being stimulated
in a hot tub.”
B: “Tell me all about this Greek goddamned Eureka science. Make it,
tell it all. Like American bimbos, writing their autobiographies,
oops, no bimbo writes an autobiography by herself. She, oops, her
press agent hires a ghost writer to write it for her. In such
autobiographies, alleged bimbo bares her soul, oops, her body, oops,
her naked body to her ghost writer. This real ghost writer, then
composes a very thrilling literature, a so called ‘Tell it all.”
A: “Boss, you are amazing. Truely and sincerely, amazing. Do you get
all your intelligence, oops, amazing intelligence from Amazon dot com”
B: “Goddammit, A. Not on Amazon dot commies. From our sacred, holy
Hindu scriptures. From Bhagvad Gita.”
A: “Boss, is Bhagvad, Gee, oops, Gita a science, art, philosophy or a
Brahmin con game? Pray tell.”
B: “My very dear and very nearly stupid, ‘chela,’ disciple, tell it
all?”
A: “Yes, Boss. Just like from horse’ mouth like.”
B: “Oops, the lights gone again. For the third time in a day. That’s
real holy Hindu scientific discovery. They can’t find their ass with
their own two hands, much less science.”
The End.
Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chip
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: August 30, 2010
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this
week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued
rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for
the consumer electronics revolution.
Related
Times Topic: Computer Chips
RSS Feed
Get Science News From The New York Times » .
In recent years the limits of physics and finance faced by chip makers
had loomed so large that experts feared a slowdown in the pace of
miniaturization that would act like a brake on the ability to pack
ever more power into ever smaller devices like laptops, smartphones
and digital cameras.
But the new announcements, along with competing technologies being
pursued by companies like IBM and Intel, offer hope that the brake
will not be applied any time soon.
In one of the two new developments, Rice researchers are reporting in
Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that they
have succeeded in building reliable small digital switches — an
essential part of computer memory — that could shrink to a
significantly smaller scale than is possible using conventional
methods.
More important, the advance is based on silicon oxide, one of the
basic building blocks of today’s chip industry, thus easing a move
toward commercialization. The scientists said that PrivaTran, a Texas
startup company, has made experimental chips using the technique that
can store and retrieve information.
These chips store only 1,000 bits of data, but if the new technology
fulfills the promise its inventors see, single chips that store as
much as today’s highest capacity disk drives could be possible in five
years. The new method involves filaments as thin as five nanometers in
width — thinner than what the industry hopes to achieve by the end of
the decade using standard techniques. The initial discovery was made
by Jun Yao, a graduate researcher at Rice. Mr. Yao said he stumbled on
the switch by accident.
Separately, H.P. is to announce on Tuesday that it will enter into a
commercial partnership with a major semiconductor company to produce a
related technology that also has the potential of pushing computer
data storage to astronomical densities in the next decade. H.P. and
the Rice scientists are making what are called memristors, or memory
resistors, switches that retain information without a source of
power.
“There are a lot of new technologies pawing for attention,” said
Richard Doherty, president of the Envisioneering Group, a consumer
electronics market research company in Seaford, N.Y. “When you get
down to these scales, you’re talking about the ability to store
hundreds of movies on a single chip.”
The announcements are significant in part because they indicate that
the chip industry may find a way to preserve the validity of Moore’s
Law. Formulated in 1965 by Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, the
law is an observation that the industry has the ability to roughly
double the number of transistors that can be printed on a wafer of
silicon every 18 months.
That has been the basis for vast improvements in technological and
economic capacities in the past four and a half decades. But industry
consensus had shifted in recent years to a widespread belief that the
end of physical progress in shrinking the size modern semiconductors
was imminent. Chip makers are now confronted by such severe physical
and financial challenges that they are spending $4 billion or more for
each new advanced chip-making factory.
I.B.M., Intel and other companies are already pursuing a competing
technology called phase-change memory, which uses heat to transform a
glassy material from an amorphous state to a crystalline one and
back.
Phase-change memory has been the most promising technology for so-
called flash chips, which retain information after power is switched
off.
The flash memory industry has used a number of approaches to keep up
with Moore’s law without having a new technology. But it is as if the
industry has been speeding toward a wall, without a way to get over
it.
To keep up speed on the way to the wall, the industry has begun
building three-dimensional chips by stacking circuits on top of one
another to increase densities. It has also found ways to get single
transistors to store more information. But these methods would not be
enough in the long run.
The new technology being pursued by H.P. and Rice is thought to be a
dark horse by industry powerhouses like Intel, I.B.M., Numonyx and
Samsung. Researchers at those competing companies said that the
phenomenon exploited by the Rice scientists had been seen in the
literature as early as the 1960s.
“This is something that I.B.M. studied before and which is still in
the research stage,” said Charles Lam, an I.B.M. specialist in
semiconductor memories.
H.P. has for several years been making claims that its memristor
technology can compete with traditional transistors, but the company
will report this week that it is now more confident that its
technology can compete commercially in the future.
In contrast, the Rice advance must still be proved. Acknowledging that
researchers must overcome skepticism because silicon oxide has been
known as an insulator by the industry until now, Jim Tour, a
nanomaterials specialist at Rice said he believed the industry would
have to look seriously at the research team’s new approach.
“It’s a hard sell, because at first it’s obvious it won’t work,” he
said. “But my hope is that this is so simple they will have to put it
in their portfolio to explore.”
…and I am Sid Harth
Categories News, Views and Reviews