Originally posted by Sophocles:

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With your above examples, the first two pertain to memory chips (SRAM), not microprocessors.

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The point was demonstrate Intel's move to 45nm silicon. You know I did read the article? It was the precursor to all that followed including processors.

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Here's a link from Dec. 2006 on the Barcelona Quad.

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The Barcelona was a 65nm Quad! How is that relevant?

Here's AMD's release date which was actually just a few months ago.

http://forum.mwave.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=530

Intel was way ahead of that too.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/20...x9650/1

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Agreed, most forms won't accept european format, which is very annoying. However to me it makes sense for the date to be in logical order - days smallest, months next, years biggest at the end. The americans just write it as they say it, which is yet another anachronism in their unit base. The d/m/y order to me is the more efficient, modern approach.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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The sad thing is that our older generation have not really fully embraced that system, so we often find ourselves mixing the two up.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Similar story about the Air Canada A330 with a fuel leak due to a maintenance error and they used the fuel transfer system rather than trying to abate the leak. Impressive stuff, but it shouldn't have to happen in the first place.

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Also considering my PCs run in measurements that only make sense to me in Celcius. I know how Celcius applies to computers. But if you show it to me in Fahrenheit it's like okay is my PC overheating or what? I mean I'm not stupid but I learned in Celcius.

I dunno in some things I like standard measurements but in most metric seems to make more sense. 32*F is freezing point? Why not just base it off freezing point and make it 0*? Even with the temps in my own PC I only have a general idea of hot and cool. Because I'm stuck on standard measurement.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I generally understand both units of measurement. It truly is a shame that we can't pick one unit, and stick with it world wide LOL! But then, we dont measure the sun/stars in Celsius/Fahrenheit, we use yet another unit, Kelvin's. At least (as far as I know), measurements of light, sound, etc, only use one unit. I could be mistaken on this.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I generally understand both units of measurement. It truly is a shame that we can't pick one unit, and stick with it world wide LOL! But then, we dont measure the sun/stars in Celsius/Fahrenheit, we use yet another unit, Kelvin's. At least (as far as I know), measurements of light, sound, etc, only use one unit. I could be mistaken on this.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I don't see it for cooking, instructions are usually given in tens of celsius, 180ºC or 190ºC for instance. Weather perhaps, but anyone who needs to be more scientific than one unit just uses decimal. Nothing to stop you using 0.1 or even 0.01 Celsius units if you have the tools to measure that accurately.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I don't see it for cooking, instructions are usually given in tens of celsius, 180ºC or 190ºC for instance. Weather perhaps, but anyone who needs to be more scientific than one unit just uses decimal. Nothing to stop you using 0.1 or even 0.01 Celsius units if you have the tools to measure that accurately.

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