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    just how small can transistor size on a chip get?

    Just remember that 3 nm number has nothing to do with nodes. 10nm node minimum pitch is 32 nm. Edit: For Intel. For others it's all a clusterfuck.
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    IBM Offering Access To Its Quantum Computer

    I mean you can use quantum tunneling transistors The Tunneling Transistor - IEEE Spectrum which use a quantum phenomena but still operate in a classical way with classical information. A quantum computer must store and operate on quantum information and that's just not as relevant for a lot of...
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    IBM Offering Access To Its Quantum Computer

    Sure it can handle everyday tasks but why would you want it to? Quantum computers offer probabilistic answers and quantum information is not permanent you have perhaps milliseconds before your qubit state decays. We can make billions of classical gates for 100 dollars which are just as good at...
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    IBM Offering Access To Its Quantum Computer

    Yeah we'll have both old and new for a long while. Quantum computing is great at a lot of specialty things but it's never going to be cheaper to run word on a quantum computer than a classical computer. If anything it will take the place of some supercomputers along with other specialized...
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    IBM Offering Access To Its Quantum Computer

    You can't ask how fast it is because that's missing the point. In a conventional processor your clock speed determines the time to answer a question, in a quantum computer the number of operations you can perform determines instead the accuracy with which you can answer that question...
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    AMD Reports 2015 Third Quarter Results

    Holy fucking shit. Check out their new Joint Op with fujitsu : http://www.eteknix.com/fujitsu-purchase-85-shares-in-amd-operations/
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    2x ASUS GTX 980 Strix

    Boom bought. Cheers!
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    FS: Brand New EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked

    Could you post the pics somewhere that doesn't require me to ask your permission to view?
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    Windows 10 Home Edition May Force Updates On You

    Windows 10 will retrieve and install driver updates including for your video cards. Both NVIDIA and AMD currently have their latest drivers on windows update. You can turn off the feature if you want to use beta drivers or what have you, but at least by default it's on for all the people who...
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    Intel Buying Altera For $16.7B

    If I had to guess it's because they're betting on FPGA's / ASICS becoming huge for research. I know that some groups have already moved over to ASICS for MD simulations so it's not surprising that Intel would bet that more simulations will also begin to transition to ASICS. Check out Anton by D...
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    "Intel forges ahead to 10nm, will move away from silicon at 7nm"

    Yep EUV is not only a mess it is not cost competitive with multipatterning using 193. That's the main issue. Most companies are looking at multiple exposure LE^N to keep going forward. I've posted about EUV before here and what a clusterfuck it is. If people are interested I can go dig it up.
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    ASUS Matrix OR Poseidon - CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON!

    Weeping tears of joy as I retire my 6970.
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    'Miracle' Tech Turns Water into Fuel

    A barrel of gas a day eh? 120 L in a barrel so let's pretend we're making octane (Just for shits n gigs) that means we need 739 moles of octane. So we need 8 times that amount of Carbon Monoxide (because 8 carbons in an octane) so 5912 mols of CO. In order to get that you as a user would have to...
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    'Miracle' Tech Turns Water into Fuel

    Different. The navy is working in a more developed area, that of the Fischer-Tropsch process. All they have to worry about is extracting the necessary reactants from sea water. I'm guessing they are probably splitting water to get hydrogen/oxygen and dumping the oxygen while keeping the...
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    Mythbusters vs. Gorilla Glass

    Yup nailed it. PMMA (plexiglass) is used all the time in bulletproof glass. It's super strong and is very easy to form, really a great material. The problem is that in the event of sudden breaking your head doesn't break the windshield the windshield breaks your head. So it can't be used for...
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    'Miracle' Tech Turns Water into Fuel

    70% efficiency could mean 70% of the reactants convert to product. I highly doubt it includes energy necessary for heating. There are a number of companies working in the biofuel space and there are a number of companies that have gone bankrupt. Fuel from oil is incredibly cheap which makes any...
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    NVIDIA Maxwell GM200 Titan II/GTX 980 Ti Slipping To 2016

    Do you guys have any idea how expensive it is to pattern at the 14 nm node? Or even the 16 nm or 20 nm half nodes? It's ridiculous. Current practice is still 193 nm light with multiple patterning. They literally pattern the entire wafer multiple times slightly offset resulting in a...
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    Ikea desk gallery

    Not quite sure if the Hemnes secretary qualifies as a desk but here it goes. Moved to a big city, and lost some square footage. Had to improvise to get a nice 'desk' space. Bonus photo of my monitor in time out (before I had removed the shelf below to fit my Nzxt phantom)
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    FS: Battlefield 4 Premium / Steam wallet code

    I'll do the trade for the steam wallet code. Send me a PM with specifics.
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    A Hacker Slumber Party For Girls

    I think equality in the workplace is great but the problem is getting people to get into the work place to begin with. It's important that people have mentors they an look up to so they even get their degree. Providing opportunities to meet mentors is always a good thing.
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    A Hacker Slumber Party For Girls

    The reason why a lot of women don't enter into STEM related fields or enter and then change out is due to a lack of role models. Think of how many professors of yours were male in college versus female. This event helps to put females in CS together with strong feminine role models. It's...
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    WTB Watch Dogs Coupon

    TTT
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    WTB Watch Dogs Coupon

    Hey I'm looking to drop 35 bucks on your nvidia coupon for watch dogs. I'll pay via paypal. Feel free to PM with offer. http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=77438
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    virus removal?

    Yah it was interesting because the antivirus identified the name properly but said it was in the download folder (I guess where it got installed to). Never suspected to wipe all the browser extensions. Just seems so obvious compared to where stuff normally hides.
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    virus removal?

    Yep not quite sure how it got there but ah well. Glad to have been able to fix it.
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    virus removal?

    Your link had this http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-gophotoit/ which had everything needed to deal with it.
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    virus removal?

    The link helped and everything has been resolved. Thanks for the advice. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to Mac OS.
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    Epic Games Needs Alpha Testers For Fortnite

    That video is of someone playing gears of war. The audio is the only thing relevant to Fortnite.
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    Epic Games Needs Alpha Testers For Fortnite

    I've been interested in this game for so long. I'm worried though because it look's like I'm not a gamer because the majority of my game time is DotA 2 which isn't listed :(
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    virus removal?

    Search provider is fine it's just the random opening of pop-ups. It's every few refreshes and really annoying her. I'll check out malwarebytes and see if it can deal with it. I'll also try to delete it through terminal using rm * or something. She'll be out tomorrow so I'm going to try to attack...
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    virus removal?

    Virus is causing random pop ups in her chrome. Adblock plus is blocking the content from loading but not the pop up. I have a multi license for bitdefender which reports the virus is in her downloads folder. I emptied the folder (shift delete) used the terminal commands to make finder show...
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    virus removal?

    So my fiance got a virus and the av software I installed can't remove it but I know where it's located. Easiest way to remove it? I tried using the terminal trick to show hidden files but it didn't show up. Ideally I'm looking for a free app or a few terminal lines to try to fix this. I'm a...
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    Mechanical Keyboard Guide

    I don't like the reds because I frequently bottom out on them. If all you want is a loser switch then a black definitely check out a red.
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    Mechanical Keyboard Guide

    I'm looking for a keyboard with cherry mx black's. I want backlit and I'd prefer some level of customization. I'm currently debating the new roccat pro as it is so damn shiny. EDIT: If it came with o-rings preinstalled that would be awesome otherwise I'll just put em on myself.
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    How to split USB keyboard / mouse between two computers?

    Synergy? It allows you to move the mouse off one screen to another and automatically migrates the keyboard as well. Just have to both be on the same network. http://synergy-foss.org/
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    Moore's Law Is Dead

    Quantum tunneling isn't the same thing as uncertainty. You don't need super cooling. Basically what happens is if you apply a voltage across a barrier that corresponds to a specific energy level across a barrier the electron can tunnel through the barrier to fill that energy level. It is not...
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    Moore's Law Is Dead

    God forbid there be an edit button: To add a bit to E-Beam. The issue with scaling up the number of beams is that each beam of electrons carries negative charges. If you want to precisely aim the electrons at the surface with nm precision you need to account for the charge of each other beam...
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    Moore's Law Is Dead

    Alright so basically EUV has been a clusterfuck to implement but we're getting a lot closer now. We have the lens systems, we have the whole setup. The biggest issue remaining is power. You see the way we transfer patterns with photolithography is you shine light through a cut out. The light...
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    Moore's Law Is Dead

    Meh people are already making transistors that operate off of quantum tunneling that isn't really an issue. The biggest issue is transferring the pattern to the wafer. We are now using 193 nm wavelength light. To make 14 nm features. This has been achieved through a combination of magnifying...
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