Re: Whenever I hear these lunatics
But the antennae load was installed so her electric waves were being sucked out of her and into the tower - thus disrupting her aura
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Ironically the bigger the page the less ink you use - assuming large format inkjets are used for schematics or architectural plans.
Unless hipsters now print out "blueprints" out of nostalgia. I'm old enough to remember actually using blueprint printers as a PFY.
Our main use of office printer seems to be expense claims.
For some reason they all have to be printed out and filed away in cabinets for years on end.
Biggest irony is photocopying receipts onto A4 paper because they don't want to bother with stacks of little bits of till-roll stapled to the claim form.
>making the instructions per clock cycle ratio higher and performance per watt as well
Don't these tend to be opposite?
Super-scaler Itanium style processors do a lot in each instruction but the extra transistors this needs uses a lot more power than a RISC chip like ARM
>There are also issues with yield as you increase the number of devices per chip and reliability decreasing geometry and increasing clock.
Yes that was the point of Moorse's 'law' - the optimal number of transistors per chip (or 1/size) increases geometrically. In spite of the increased cost of the fab to make smaller components, the increased processing time and steps, the increased failure rate with smaller components = it's still cheaper over time to make smaller transistors.
This is what has actually run out. It's now more expensive per transistor to make them on a 5 marketing-nm fab than on 7 or 10, but if you want to put skynet on your write you have no choice.
IIRC routine that calibrated out the Earth's motion didn't use enough significant figures.
Telescope was on Earth and was measuring very small shift in the position of another star, so had to take out the measurement point moving much more than the shift you are looking for.
These fines are really just a way of getting the companies to pay tax.
The politicians/voters like it because the tax cheats got taken down
The companies prefer it because they write it off against tax anyway and accounting tricks make it look like a one-off extraordinary payment, rather than a recurring tax bill - so the balance sheet looks better
Very pretty, but these kits are all special parts that can only be used to build versions of Saturn V by following instructions = it's just a 3d jigsaw.
At least if you built them out of toilet roll tubes, yogurt pots and sticky backed plastic some effort, and fun, would be involved.