Interesting. I've heard of batteries combusting, and CPU packaging melting, but never heard of combustion of a CPU or its packaging. How would this happen? What material in the packaging would be susceptible to becoming inflamed?

Also, I know some CPUs have thermal sensors built in to "lock up" at a particular temperature (at least some Intel CPUs). Why wouldn't these kick in? >> ^swedishfriend:

CPUs do combust. It happens all the time. Don't know why there would be more than some smoke though as it wouldn't be surrounded by many materials that would fuel a fire like that. Reading malformed data may cause a system to malfunction which may leave it open for someone to attack it but as stated before there is no reason the data on its own would be executed as a program. Pretty dumb overall. Is this from a spoof type show, I didn't recognize it at all.

If you're going to out one company for being in business with Foxconn, why not out them all? Own a game console? Your Xbox, PS3, and Wii were all made here. Like to read? This is where your Kindle came from.

Foxconn isn't just producing ithings and iphones, they assemble 40% of the world's electronics. Here's a list of SOME of Foxconn's clients (from wikipedia):

Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
Apple Inc. (United States)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)

Hmph...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/occupy-wall-street_n_987439.html
http://www.laborunionreport.com/portal/2011/09/wall-st-protest-day-three-a-call-for-the-deprivatization-of-everything/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/occupy-wall-street_n_987439.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/labor_unions_and_leftist_group.html

The more I see about these yahoos, the less sympathy I feel. The protestors were clogging up the streets and sidewalks and bringing the area to a standstill. People couldn't drive or get to work. They were creating a disturbance, disrupting citizens, and otherwise being a bunch of jerks. That sort of mess can be dangerous in a big city. It stops ambulances. It stops fire trucks. It stops emergency services. It causes accidents.

So the police got called in to clear a way so normal traffic could keep going. The protestors refused to disperse or cooperate. Therefore in order to accomplish their jobs, the police had to start hauling people away and using crowd control. That means they break out the pepper spray, nightsticks, nets, plastic cuffs, and start arresting people. Duh.

So when that happens the protestors start whining they are 'peaceful'? And the police are 'violent'? Nope. Doesn't wash. If you'd wanted a peaceful solution then you'd have dispersed when the police asked - or better yet you wouldn't have created a problem to start with. But that didn't happen, so the cops had to force it.

You don't get to cry foul when that happens. When you illegally block traffic and create a danger to others then the cops have every right to force you to clear out - and they have every right to use force if you are not cooperative. MLK and Ghandi accomplished their goals with peaceful protests against real oppression. These Wall Street yahoos are just a bunch of leftist cretins who are trying to stir up trouble. I think this opinion about sums it up...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/09/26/life-on-occupied-wall-street/

"It’s become impossible to tell where a deluded leftism stops and a respectable liberalism starts. For all the liberal complaining about conservative extremism becoming the norm, today’s liberal media culture earns its daily bread by flattering (or employing) everyone from Al Sharpton to Michael Moore to 9/11 Truthers like rapper Mos Def. And so liberalism continues its steady transformation into a self-righteous, incoherent, solution-free blur. Take a long, hard look at the fur-capped, begoggled, and topless misfits on Wall Street. They’re funhouse mirror images of our more respected liberal elites."

Actually the stories about iraqi WMDs originated from an informant named curveball who presented this information to german intelligence (BND), but they quickly exposed him as liar craving for validation. The intel was given to allied intelligence agencies ALONG with the assessment. All other agencies just filed the info. All but the CIA which in full awarness of the phoniness decided to use it for Powell's speech. In my eyes that justifies or even compels to bringing the whole bush administration to court.

>> ^radx:

His former Chief of Staff was interviewed about this on DemocracyNow as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8tqfIlUIlU


Thanks radx I saw that one.
The only person Cheney doesn't blame is Cheney--Cheney is a dick.
I like Wilkerson, I still say they should have known.
Wilkerson says he had doubts about the intel--but his boss still gave the speech.

This guy appears to be funny with his witty one-liners but it's the same language used in the diplomatic leaks revealed last year. I am amazed how these diplomats think in a uni-dimensional way. I know he had to crunch the intell and condense it in one sentence for the commander in chief, but gee....

These guys are the #1 fab equipment supplier to Intel, AMD, Samsung, etc etc... they are probably aren't just making this stuff up.

Better control and lower impurities than ever before, means smaller, faster devices and higher yields. Moores Law continues.



This is an investor-seeking video. It's not even in a proof-of-concept stage from the looks of it. They have nothing to exhibit because they're seeking investors to help them figure out if their idea is even viable. They're nowhere near a solution, and I'll bet they run into plenty of roadblocks before they're close to one. They try to make it sound simple, like they've got it all figured out, but they're no Intel, or even AMD/ATI.

Good luck, but I'm not holding my breath.

>> ^deathcow:

I'm not saying 10 TB of video. Several TB of astronomical images, etc. Stuff that takes a long time to move around. USB2 is not up to modern requirements for speed.


You are still not answering the question. What is there to get excited about???

Hard drives (SATA 3.0) are topping out at 6Gbps, which means that a typical PC can't get anywhere near the max Thunderbolt speed. USB 3.0 (available right now) peaks at 5Gbps, which is more than most hard drives can handle. PLUS USB 3.0 is backward compatible. In the real world, there will be no noticeable difference between USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt unless you have multiple RAID arrays in close proximity, and are pushing your systems to the limit on a daily basis. It would be about a thousand times more useful to have that kind of speed on your network connections, and 10G ethernet has been around for years!

Thunderbolt is nothing but a small incremental improvement over USB 3.0 that most people will not be able to notice, except for the fact that all their old peripherals won't be compatible.

If you're just geeking out about the new shiny, that's cool. But please just say so.

>> ^deathcow:

I have 10 terabytes here online and I am not particularly fanatical about video. A few years ago nobody would have casually had that much space. By the time Thunderbolt is common on every desktop, it will seem an appropriate speed for typical user needs.
>> ^MaxWilder:
>> ^deathcow:
> And I gotta wonder how many people do.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Lots of people have terabytes of videos.

And I cant tell you how many times per day I feel like moving my ripped movie collection from one PC to another PC sitting right next to it...
Like I said, this is probably great for untold dozens of professional video editors worldwide.



10 terabytes? And you are not fanatical about video? I'm not sure you have a well-adjusted perspective.

I watch all my movies and tv off my hard drive. And I watch a LOT. Several hours per day, at least (while I'm between jobs). I keep most of it on one external 500 Gig hard drive. For the most part I delete as I go, but there's quite a lot of stuff I have saved and/or haven't watched yet. 500G is enough for almost 1500 television episodes at standard bitrate. 10 terabytes is almost enough for 30,000 tv show episodes, or 15,000 movies. Even if you increase the bitrate for 720p resolution, you've got enough space to store over 7,000 movies.

If that isn't fanatical about video, I don't know what is.

But more to the point, we're talking about technology that is specifically designed to transfer that kind of massive data from one pc to another pc . . . IN THE SAME ROOM.

So even if it becomes completely normal for people to have massive collections like yours (for instance on a home server), Thunderbolt will still serve absolutely no purpose for day-to-day tasks like viewing video and downloading from the internet.

TL;DR - What the hell are you doing with 10 terabytes that would be assisted by massive LOCAL bandwidth?

>> ^dag:

Seriously? What about the instant-wake from sleep?

I think I'm just spoiled now and have taken it for granted.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Seriously? What about the instant-wake from sleep? >> ^blankfist:

>> ^dag:
I was going to say the same thing. I think my next Macbook will have an SSD. Finally, no moving internal parts. >> ^deathcow:
Hook me up with this and SSD drives.
He says it's 10 gigabit. I think it's two independant channels of 10 gigabits.


I'm not sure I can tell much of a difference with mine.

>> ^dag:

I was going to say the same thing. I think my next Macbook will have an SSD. Finally, no moving internal parts. >> ^deathcow:
Hook me up with this and SSD drives.
He says it's 10 gigabit. I think it's two independant channels of 10 gigabits.



I'm not sure I can tell much of a difference with mine.

I have 10 terabytes here online and I am not particularly fanatical about video. A few years ago nobody would have casually had that much space. By the time Thunderbolt is common on every desktop, it will seem an appropriate speed for typical user needs.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^deathcow:
> And I gotta wonder how many people do.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Lots of people have terabytes of videos.

And I cant tell you how many times per day I feel like moving my ripped movie collection from one PC to another PC sitting right next to it...
Like I said, this is probably great for untold dozens of professional video editors worldwide.

>> ^deathcow:

> And I gotta wonder how many people do.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Lots of people have terabytes of videos.


And I cant tell you how many times per day I feel like moving my ripped movie collection from one PC to another PC sitting right next to it...

Like I said, this is probably great for untold dozens of professional video editors worldwide.