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2b) Tangential Vectors: Humor & Other Dementia

2c) IMHO: Editorials & Opinions

2d) Fun Stuff: Toys, Tools, & Events

2e) Career Tracks

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2b) Tangential Vectors: Humor & Other Dementia

- New - How did we get from postal letters to Web logs? by Brian McGinty
At one time people actually played chess by postal mail. Move a piece, write a letter, and eventually get the opponent's move by return mail. This technique also worked for other turn-based role-playing games. (ChipCenter: Columns)

2c) IMHO: Editorials & Opinions

The Online Giant Has Homogenized the Net. What's Next? By Ken Feinstein
While all eyes have been on the Nasdaq's ups and downs and Microsoft's legal troubles, America Online has been not so quietly taking over the world. Aiming to control everything you watch, read, and listen to, online and off, this titan is already wired into the households of 23 million Americans (about 20 percent of the surfing population). (MARATHON Digital Publishing {scan via})
Freedom Or Copyright? By legalizing the copying of e-books, we can turn copyright back into the industrial regulation it once was.
Back in the days of print, copyright provided a public benefit, as intended, with little burden on the public. Then computers and networks changed how information is distributed, and what was once an industrial regulation on publishers had become a restriction on the public it was meant to serve. In a democracy, a law that prohibits a popular, natural and useful activity is usually soon relaxed. But the powerful publishers� lobby was determined to prevent the public from taking advantage of the power of their computers, and found copyright a suitable weapon. (MARATHON Digital Publishing {scan via})

2d) Fun Stuff: Toys, Tools, & Events

First prototype of revolutionary SETI telescope unveiled at 40th anniversary of the world's first scientific search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
Today, April 19, representatives of the SETI Institute and UC Berkeley introduced the first in a series of prototypes for the One Hectare Telescope, or 1hT. So named because of its total signal 'collecting' area (one hectare is 10,000 square meters or 2.47 acres), the 1hT is a partnership between the University and the Institute. (MARATHON Digital Publishing {scan via})

2e) Career Tracks

KEMET Announces 30,000 Square Foot Addition to Fountain Inn Plant; 150 Jobs to Be Added
KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM) today announced a 30,000 square foot addition to their Fountain Inn, South Carolina, ceramic capacitor manufacturing facility. This expansion is part of a capital expansion program for KEMET's ceramic business that includes a 50% capacity expansion of existing products as well as a rapid ramp-up of manufacturing capacity for Base Metal Electrode (BME) and leading-edge, high-capacitance products. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Motorola Plans To Invest �1.3 Billion To Expand Semiconductor Manufacturing Capacity In Scotland
Over the next five years the facility in Scotland is expected to employ 1,350 people and will be Motorola's largest semiconductor facility in Europe. Motorola is already the largest manufacturing employer in Scotland, with a total workforce of 6,500 at its three plants in East Kilbride, South Queensferry and Easter Inch (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Many tech jobs will go unfilled, report finds By Terry Costlow EE Times
A recent ITAA survey found there are just over 10 million IT workers in the United States, and that roughly half of the 1.6 million job openings that will be generated this year will go unfilled. (EE Times)

Resources

The Virtual Job: The Tales, Trials, and Technology Of A Home-Based Editor

ChipCenter Reference Library
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Lee H. Goldberg
Before trading his 'scope probe in for a pen, Lee spent nearly 20 years in the electronics industry. During that time, he worked in several fields, including microcircuit design, ultrasonic instruments, robotics, and interplanetary spacecraft. He spent 5 years in the print world with Electronic Design before making the jump to Cyberspace here at ChipCenter. When he's not at a trade show or flying his ultralight, Lee lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife Catherine and daughter, Anwyn. Lee holds a Bachelor's in electical engineering from Thomas Edison College. His non-fiction work has appeared in IEEE Computer, New Telecommunications Quarterly, Wireless Systems Design, The Princeton Packet, Aviation Art Gallery, and Electronic Design. His most recent book, 'Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - Environmentally Responsible Engineering' is published by Newnes Press.
Please send your comments to lgoldberg@chipcenter.com.


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