Quantum limit?

Of course, those geniuses who have been coaxing NAND as far as 19nm could very well keep pulling rabbits out of their hats and push it well beyond 10nm - time will tell."

Aren't we going to start seeing quantum mechanics start dominating things if we go too much below 10nm (say around 7nm or so)?

Handwriting

That means the notes made about a given patient – provided they're written legibly – can be collated easily and will only need to be written out once.

If nurses handwriting is anything like doctors, then there could just be a flaw in the digi-pen utilisation here?

And having occasionally had to help my pharmacist wife decode some doctors scribbles on scripts and notes, methinks perhaps the digi-pens could end up creating more work later on when people actually try to make sense of the notes made.

Mandatory add-on

Any such phone should of course come connected to an armour-plated strap that ends in a handcuff. Simply to prevent some twonk leaving the damn thing in the back of a taxi.

A nice little niche market money-earner perhaps?

A training course and accompanying book entitled iPhone Holding for Dummies?

Not just sci-fi

The “light sail” – a spacecraft powered by the pressure of photons streaming from a handy star – might still be science fiction, but researchers in the US have demonstrated that photons can flip switches at the nano scale.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10293284

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/24jan_solarsail/

It's become science-fact, albeit on an experimental basis.

So where do I get my aging and decrepit eyes (or i's perhaps) upgraded for all this new technology?

Mine's the coat with the glasses case in the pocket.

The first rule of engineering...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Menu-driven on a touchscreen tablet - broken (or at least awkward), so fix it with big buttons and stuff.

Menu-driven on a desktop without touchscreen - ain't broken in Win7.

So we have style over substance (and usability) in some cases, in the odd view that one size should actually fit all on widely divergent hardware and applications.

Modelling

As alternatives to Sketch-up, you can also consider both Wings3D and Blender.

Both are free (open source) and quite easy to use. I use Wings3D for some game modding, and I know others who use Blender for the same. Either would do the job nicely for conjuring up models for printing.

Mmmmm

[voice=Homer]exoto-doughnut [/voice]

Does this also partially explain the recent lull in BOFH output - all the creative juices being flowed here instead?

Or have you lot just been reading too many archived ones to pass the time?

Still a fun read nonetheless, and sadly parts are too believeable.

What we still don't know, though, is exactly what "preview version" means when it comes to Office 2013 RT. It could simply mean that the applications are buggy and crash-prone, or it could mean that the suite will ship with certain features disabled, or even entire Office components missing.

And this differs how from the normal "full" version? Says he who's just had to pick Excel 2010 off the floor where it decided to land in an ugly heap.

Misread the title

I initally read it as "Microsoft preparing for disliked Windows 8 PCs"

How about...

"Curtains"

Cos it covers up any usefulness of Windows, and it will be for Microsoft?

As the saying goes...

To err is human, to really foul things up you need a computer...

Is there a certain amount of irony here given how much Nokia have lost their way recently?

Nice one

Good to see that milestone achieved.

Either that or it was the preparation of one hell of a curry for Friday night (to go with the ale <---)