Does Jesus use a Zune?

[LeeVanCleef]

Who would have thought God was such a Windows fan? He takes Steve Jobs and leaves Bill Gates!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html?_r=1&hp

 

[Shockman]

He and Woz have always been my two favorite people in the business, though like many, my monetary support went to the lesser (in my heart) Gates.

Steve, if he had Gates's business shrewdness, he would have had even more success and market share, if not the lions share. If Gates though had Steve's vision and enthusiasm for product innovation and quality over dollars, Gates would be richer still.

Does Jesus use a Zune?

I don't know. Good question. Can you hide in a Zune?

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I remember reading an interview with Woz awhile back that said he'd go back to Apple if asked. This might be a good time to bring in an icon to help fill the void left by Jobs (a pretty impossible task). I just downloaded Pirates of Silicon Valley... maybe they should bring Noah Wylie in to take over.
I think Woz is my favorite of the bunch. Jobs sure could be difficult to work for. Although I'd rather work for someone mercurial than someone who seems kinda weaselly, like Gates.
You're right Shocky... combine Jobs and Gates and you've got the perfect techno CEO!

 

[sleepy]

I dunno. Bringing Woz back to Apple would be like bringing back "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" on ABC in 1970.
We might see Sally Struthers in a bathtub and that's about it.

Now ask me about diamagnetic pickups for digital disks.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

If it's 1970 Sally Struthers, I'm all for it. 2011 Sally Struthers... not so much.
Woz wouldn't have to actually do anything. Stand around and smile at the product unveilings... cash a check every now and again.

 

[sleepy]

But Jobs was the dreamer and the closer.
Woz is/was the fixer, pragmatic, when Jobs couldn't figure out how to do it.
Check out the story behind the Atari Breakout game for example.

http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Articles.Detail&id=395

About that story, Jobs was probably holding Woz' dope for him...

 

[Shockman]

How 'bout those diamagnetic pickups for digital disks?

I would be most interested a the comparison between those and the new carbon nano tubes and strands that Intel is going to build at the new 3 billion dollar research facility in Hillsboro, and the terabit, and single atom density promised in part by those structures, along with maybe graphene.

The first product of that facility of course is going to be a brief scale back up of existing tech. to plummet the cost, but the future may come from there, and it might be multi-terabit flash drives that need to be not noticeably bigger than their port, memory structures that are many times more dense and many time cooler (yeah, 'cool', but not hot either). Intel did not discover any of this tech, nor are they now leading. Nor should we expect it from those that thought it up, because they are not in the business of actually providing it. When it does come out though, don't expect Intel to say Glory to them, there will be a campaign with the theme 'Glory to us'.

My son is working on that plant. As an apprentice electrician.

 

[sleepy]

I was thinking the other day...about how a focused laser beam is magnetically susceptible, and how the data layer of a commercial disk is made of aluminum, and how aluminum is diagmagnetic (the material behaves perpendicular to the magnetic field).
I'm guessing that reading disks by their magnetic or diamagnetic properties could be a solution to the problem of optical read errors caused by scratches, boogers, and junk.

Now if we could only ignore the plastic.

EDIT: Might need to scrap the laser and replace it with a micro-MRI head.

 

[Shockman]

With color out of the picture I think you could get a good enough image with a laser. I don't know how an mri works though. Is that from bouncing anything other than light back? Magnetic resonance image, as in the medical device? One thing about the carbon structures is that they can change like silicon with current, but they on the other had can also be built to be in and default back to either state. I don't know if that means charged though or just conductive or not.

 

[sleepy]

Yes, magnetic resonance imaging which reads the difference in an electromagnetic frequency. The frequency is bounced similar to the laser bouncing off of a disk (or the tabletop when using an optical mouse) and the return is read for the difference in frequency, in strength, or in phase relative to the original beam frequency. Similar to RADAR.

I'm not sure, but I think the tubes might squeeze shut, like a JFET transistor channel, but in a 3D tube shape, and function like Liquid Crystals or a JFET twisting under an applied voltage.

 

[Shockman]

I don't think they are moving parts. Could you imagine the heat if a tightly packed cluster of billions of those were doing that? The pitch is smaller scale, faster current, and less heat. And I don't think they are talking fractions about any three but whole numbers of times better in these areas. I also think the fact that they are tube is not by design, but growth. Some carbon nano structures are not tubes. I think the excitement over the tubes is the, what is that force called, 4 or 5 letters, that have these things almost bonding with each other and any two perfectly (or close to) smooth surfaces sticking together? Have you seen these things cultivated and harvested? Its very cool. It looks kind of like taking a plate full of loose particles, grabbing one, and pulling straight up and removing them as a single strand until the plate is empty. Tubes of course have a higher tensile strength for reasons you already understand.

 

[Mitchell]

I will say this. I think will get alone with Steven P. Jobs than Bill Gates.

Why because Bill Gates hated Apple stuff and he probably willing to throw my iPod Touch and iPad out of the door if he see those laying around. I do not trust Bill Gates after all the news about him not letting his kids have anything from Apple.

I do love Windows and Apple. I just don't like people crying over those.

 

[sleepy]

Shoot. Bill Gates doesn't even pay for the ideas that he uses, but neither did Jobs.

I think Bill Gates' kids are on Welfare as an allowance!

 

[Shockman]

I think Bill is smart enough to not buy ideas. He lets them develop into products superior to his then assimilates the finished product.

 

[sleepy]

You mean...like The Blob, or The Thing?

 

[Shockman]

like the Borg