Thursday, May 1, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The developments of the MOSFETs with the multiple-gates (FinFET, TriGate) and the integrated circuit for the high-performance and low-power logic applications in the consumer and business areas will advance consistently in the accordance with the ITRS technology roadmap for the next decade and longer. As the period that the technology roadmap covers draws near to the end in the middle of 2020s, the necessity for something new twists should arise. It seems that because of some manageable problems in technology and the growing pressures from the environmental organization, the use of the compound semiconductor for the channel material has been delayed for these general appliances. The photonic integrated circuit might be the one though it's difficult to realize.
For the supercomputer application, the compound semiconductor devices will play the reading role and may become the mainstream before long. In the future, the superconductor circuit with the quantum devices operational at ultra-low temperature may become more practical, but suited only to some very specialized supercomputing uses.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. One of the monster tornados picked a truck up and made a very long toss of 27 miles (43.5 km) in Arkansas recently, according to the news websites today.
Most notables among the semiconductor devices for auto appliances are the power transistors and the sensors. There have been a variety of devices in these categories. Like the home electrical appliances, various types of microcomputers have also been used inside the automobiles. The recent rapid advancement in the electrification of the driving system and the aggrandizement of the safety and amenity devices in automobiles has been increasing the necessity for the more highly multifunctional abilities of microcomputers for the auto.
The microcomputers on automobiles have to satisfy their normal operations in a wide range of temperatures, covering driving in a cold district to a tropical zone with a wide margin. Energy efficiency is always favorable but it isn't a necessity of the highest priority because for the electric vehicle both the driving motor and the air-conditioning systems should consume the electricity stored in the battery very dominantly or for the gasoline-engine vehicle and the hydrogen-engine vehicle the electricity is usually plentiful. The remaining need for the system-on-a-chip is also unavoidable. The trend toward MEMS development may help integrate both microcomputers and the sensors sophisticatedly on a chip. Taking the above factors into consideration, the auto industry is usually more conservative in the choice of the technology generation of the semiconductor microcomputer chip than other industries are.
However, this fact doesn't necessarily guide the semiconductor companies oriented toward the auto industry to seek eagerly for the outsourcing of their manufacturing at their own factories abroad or their contracted foundries for the purpose of cost reduction. Since the technologies essential to the development of semiconductor devices for auto applications can be seamlessly diverted to military uses, the technology transfers across the border should be very carefully dealt with. The tight regulation on the technology transfer aiming for the development and manufacturing overseas of high-performance semiconductor chips for auto application should be necessary. The outsourcing of only the old-fashioned microcomputers and the discreet devices may be safe from a broader point of view.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
According to the news program, a couple of weak earthquakes hit the northern part of Gifu prefecture last weekend. Early this morning an earthquake of magnitude 6 shook Tokyo. Fortunately, no serious damage from these quakes was reported. Although the news program reported that the earthquakes caused some mild jolt here, these had escaped my notice.
An earthquake escaped my notice early this morning, but a finding gave me a shock this evening. Pages 395 to 426 of The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume II by Prof. Steven Weinberg are missing.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
There are a variety of troublemakers in the gardens in the southeastern US. Two of the nuisances that most often made me annoyed in the garden of my former house in Texas are ants and ivy. Unlike ants in Japan, ants in Texas are very aggressive. The most dangerous and is known to be the fire ant there. The fire ant is a bit smaller in size and reddish. The residents of houses in Texas have usually to control the nests that some colonies of fire ants build, at regular intervals, especially in summer. Its severe stings commonly leave large allergic swellings on human skin lasting for days. It seems that there are two major ways to control fire ants in a garden. One is the use of boiling water and the other is that of some chemical pesticides specialized for it. Although because of the complicated structure of its nest underground, the use of boiling water isn't effective at all, conservationists tend to prefer boiling water to pesticides.
Human skin may also cause irritation and rash where irritant oil from the leaves, tendrils, and stems of some species of ivy comes in contact with it. Poison ivy is a typical nuisance often encountered in the gardens and the thickets in many regions of the US. Irritant oil from the ivy that was climbing up the wall of the patio of my former house had bothered me sometimes from 2002 through 2004. After becoming aware that irritant oil from ivy when trimming it during its growing seasons bothered me, the trouble never returned. Wearing a long-sleeved shirt should help minimize any undesirable contact with irritant oil from poisonous plants when looking after a garden. Indeed, physical work out of doors with wearing a long-sleeved shirt in Texas in mid-summer is a strain. Asking the gardeners for their services should be a reasonable idea, especially for an aged person.
There are many other dangerous species there. The scorpions, the black widows, other venomous spiders, and snakes are so. Fortunately, any of them had never come into sight in my backyard. The scars on my feet where some fire ants bit and on my arms where ivy oil irritated hardly show anymore. It goes without saying that in general neither fire ant bite nor irritant ivy oil harms a human's physical condition noticeably except for skin condition unless one has a severe predisposition to allergic reactions.
Sent the following email to the Cambridge University Press in Tokyo this evening:
Dear the Customer Service Department of the Cambridge University Press,
The reason why I am making contact with the customer service department of the Cambridge University Press in Tokyo is that I recently noticed that pages 395 to 426 of 'The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume II Modern Applications' in hardcover by Prof. Steven Weinberg that I purchased in the US several years ago are missing, and I currently live in Japan. In the margins of pages 1 to 18 of this book, I have already written no small number of notes.
I would appreciate it if you could provide me with some of the beneficial ideas that may allow me to obtain 32 pages absent in it in Japan, without purchasing the same book again.
Regards,
Yasuhito Shiho
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Until recently, Germany has made its Constitutional revisions fifty-nine times, according to the news website today. It seems that Japan also needs to amend some articles of the Constitution. Differently from Germany, however, Japan should keep its Constitution rigid. In other words, article 96 of the Constitution of Japan shouldn't be revised easily. Probably, the revision of Article 96 will result in putting back the clock in Japan.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Sent amazon.com, where I purchased that book several years ago, an email similar to what I sent the Cambridge University Press the day before yesterday. Also forwarded it to the email address of the information center of the Cambridge University Press as customer service of amazon.com suggested in a reply to my email.
Friday, May 9, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
An information clerk of the Cambridge University Press forwarded my latest email to its customer service department early in the morning. The Cambridge University Press provided me with the pdf files including the missing pages this afternoon and may send me a replacement copy later on.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
When in the future the spacecraft Escargot makes a round trip between the earth and Mars and the propellant has to be refilled on Mars, what kind of resources for the propellant may be available there is a rather interesting and practical question to ask. Although the water might be discovered underground and extracted from a groundwater artery or moist soil, it will require digging efforts on the surface of Mars. The extraction of the necessary substances from the air seems to be easier than that. The thin atmosphere of Mars is composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, and so on. The extraction of carbon dioxide, which takes up about 95% of Mars' atmosphere, in solid form shouldn't be so difficult and that of nitrogen in liquid form, which can also be used to cool the temperature of the superconducting magnet down below its critical temperature, shouldn't, either. A device specialized to fractionate these substances from the air utilizing the flow of electricity generated with a reactor on the Escargot may enable it to return to the earth. Anyway, the Escargot needs to have such an impellent force that it can escape from the gravity of Mars.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
To my knowledge, there is only one technological difficulty left to enable the Escargot to make a round trip between Earth and Mars. That is the absence of a safe reactor, as written previously. The nuclear fusion reactor is considered to be so. The generation of electricity with a fusion reactor hasn't been realized yet, as well known. When a compact reactor with the D-D fusion reaction is brought to realization in the future, the Escargot will be able to take off from the surface of the earth for Mars rather safely. If the worst should happen in the earth's atmosphere, the scattering of the fuel filled in it shouldn't cause any serious environmental problems. Even if the generation of electricity with the fusion reactor were to be impossible, the Escargot still has a bright future for a journey in outer space. In this case, however, the fight of the Escargot in the earth's atmosphere should be banned.
Although I wrote about its impellent force yesterday, I have an optimistic view of it. The potential top speed of the Escargot should be much faster than any spacecraft with a jet engine utilizing chemical reasons. It seems that the Escargot isn't powerful enough to achieve near the speed of light. As compared with both a massive elementary particle accelerated in a collider and a photon flying around, it can move slowly like an edible snail.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
My iMac G5 woke from hibernation because of the rise in the temperature during the daytime. It's still peevish.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Soon after the recent IPO of Alibaba on the New York Stock Market, either the Chinese government or its railway company announced its plan to build a railway connecting China and the US through Russia. Probably, their plan includes the excavation of the tunnels that link Siberia with Alaska under the sea across the Bering Strait.
One of the possible benefits is the freights that are capable of transporting many kinds of goods in trains over a very long distance between China and the US at much lower costs than aerial transports do and in a much shorter time than maritime transports do. The reason why they announced this project recently is to support chiefly the Internet retailers based in China like Alibaba in terms of the retailing business in the US. Although it may potentially bring enormous benefits to the companies and the consumers on both continents, this project doesn't seem to be so attractive for the purpose of the business of carrying passengers, compared to the existing ways to travel between two continents.
Another reason may be an intermediation between Russia and the West in order to avoid a relapse into the Cold War structure.
Friday, May 16, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Either the Chinese government or its railway company also announced its project of a magnetic levitation train that can run at speeds over Mach 2 surprisingly. Taking the safety of passengers and the cost of both the construction and the maintenance of the railways into consideration, such an ultra-high-speed train isn't reasonable. Probably, it's just a part of their investor-drawing campaigns.
I don't give the project of the magnetic levitation train linking the Kantô and the Kansai regions in Japan a sharply critical look if the setting of its maximum speed is reasonable. It can be an expensive star attraction for tourists.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The market performance of the consumer electrical appliances of Japanese make hasn't been satisfactory in the US recently. A majority of Americans prefer purchasing the second or the third most reliable electrical appliances at lower prices to purchasing the most reliable ones at higher prices. It seems that the Japanese themselves haven't won more popularity than they expected there. This cause should be attributed to Japanese behaviors for the most part. On the other hand, the Japanese automobile industry is still full of vigor in the US market. The American majority still hesitates to take risks in buying less reliable automobiles because automobiles are expensive goods for daily living and the driving of an unreliable one may be dangerous to their lives, unlike most of the electrical appliances. A variety of the non-human characters of Japanese-made seen in films, games, and cartoons are also growing in popularity. The US domestic box-office profits last weekend proved the deep-rooted popularity of a classic Japanese monster.
A nuclear-powered dinosaur-like monster appeared in the Japanese monochrome film for the first time in 1954. The radioactive monster is a metaphor for the US Forces and their weapons destroyed the cities of Japan in the original film. Indeed, the successful release of an American-made giant gorilla movie in 1933 inspired some Japanese filmmakers to create their own monsters. Because of the success of the film at the box office worldwide, its sequel was taken and released after another. After a certain period of time had passed since the revision of the Japan-US Security Treaty in 1960, it's funny that the monster became a guardian with a dog-like friendly face for Japan in cooperation with its Self-Defense Forces in the film.
Late in the1990s Hollywood filmmakers remade the film with the same title with the full use of the computer-graphic technology developed in the US. The film that was released last weekend is Hollywood's second full remake of it using the very latest computer graphics. What an American filmmaker expresses in a metaphor in the latest film is interesting. The monster shouldn't be the US military forces anymore because it attacks the cities of the US. Nowadays, the monster may gain its power by eating a huge amount of coal, though it's still radioactive. Anyway, the contribution of the continuous advancement of the computer and software to the motion picture industry is tremendous.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Got rid of mold growing on the bathroom walls thoroughly. Regular sanitization of the wet areas is indispensable, especially in the rainy and summer seasons.
Some of the impressionistic landscape paintings by Mr. Ramon Vilanova drew my attention this evening. The subject matters of his painting on the website seem to be typical in the impressionist school and popular with the general Impressionist devotees. Taking a closer view, a good sense of the abstract art in a vividly colorful jumble of brush strokes both vigorous and delicate may be found in his works.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a rainy day.
In terms of pandemic human value, what other living things and artificial machines have trouble doing and only the human species is capable of should be the human's most precious attributes. Firstly, plentiful creativity, unique imagination, keen insight, and deep comprehension are so important. No machine is strong in these capabilities of the brain. Although the computer is generally excellent in memorization and logical calculation, it's incapable of conducting the above-mentioned capabilities up to now. Secondarily, with the production of the tools and the machines the human species had stood out from other living things. It goes without saying that this is what allowed the human species to stand above other living things on the earth and has civilized them.
In human society, however, the excellence in the features of beauty, skill, physical ability, etc. are naturally valuable, as everybody knows. Especially in the fields of art, sports, and entertainment, excellence in these attributes should be desirable. As far as people don't misread the true values of the human being compared with other things, the values of beauty, skill, and physical ability should be praiseworthy. These features aren't by any means bad.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
Among the various fields of science and technology, there exist some differences in atmosphere. The atmospheres are more pressing in most fields of technology than those of science because the competition among the private-sector enterprises has driven a great part of the advancements of these fields, the timetables for the research and development in these fields are strictly kept to and the assessment of the outcomes from many aspects including profitability are severe in general.
In the fields of technology, the verifications of the expected performances and functions of the experimental devices and the medical supplies and the proposed theories associated with them can be uninterruptedly carried out in the research laboratories in a relatively short period of time.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
In the fields of fundamental science, the atmospheres aren't so pressing in general, compared to those of technology. In order to avoid any waste of taxes and public funds, even in these fields, fund management has gradually become more difficult to ignore the importance of results and the contribution to human societies than before. However, it's still not so hustling.
In many fields of science, the verification of the proposed theory may be carried out continuously with thoughtful devising of 'active' experiments and observations. However, it isn't in some fields of science. One of the fields in science that have been confronted with some difficulties in the verification is elementary particle physics, as written recently. On the grounds of both the fundamental difficulties and the increasingly immense expenses of experiments to prove the hypotheses, any hope for rapid advancements in the verifications of them in a short period of time can't be held in our minds.
Another is cosmology. Although the investigations using space probes were the revolutionary achievements in this field for half a century, these have been restricted within our solar system until recently. Voyager-I is breaking its own world record of the farthest space from the earth where a man-made thing can reach. There isn't any strong reason that scientists need to haste after achievement in this field. After the Cold War era the tension of the space race was once relaxed but currently, it may be building up again. The space race may stimulate the competitive spirits of the nations in terms of not cosmology but the space technologies that may be used for military purposes.
Because the verifications of the hypotheses describing the origin and nature of the universe can be made only with 'passive' experimental observations, the advancement of cosmology is inescapable being rather slower than other fields of science and technology. It's true that the use of the space telescope must be a revolutionary breakthrough in astronomical observation because it significantly improves the quality of astronomical observation with the avoidance of a hindrance by Earth's atmosphere. Observation data of electromagnetic radiation from outer spaces including information from the beginning up to the present are always pouring on the surface of the earth. However, it's undeniable that astronomical observation is nothing but passive. It shouldn't be frequent to encounter conclusive observation data. Therefore cosmology will continue to advance at a slow pace. After the accumulation of a large amount of observation data gathered from the distant corners of the universe and the improvements in their accuracy, the proposed theories will come to be regarded as truths, step by step.
The most known and believable theory about the origin of the universe is the Big Bang theory. Not a few kinds of observation data giving suggestions as to the traces of the early universe support this theory. However, it seems that the verification of even the Big Bang theory hasn't completely been finished yet. There is no scientific evidence of what the big banger is at all. Some observation data recently revealed that the universe is acceleratingly expanding. The source and mechanism of the positive energy to expand the universe acceleratingly, that is the so-called dark energy, is still mysterious. It hasn't been perfectly agreed yet whether what the astronomers have observed is really drawing the conclusion of the acceleratingly expanding universe or not. The universe is still full of mysteries.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
My reading at slow pace of books on the fields of physics, the advancements of which are rather slow, should be adequate as a weekend hobby.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a dish of Japanese noodles for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
My wife and I have never dabbled in gambling other than a lottery since 1995. At some gasoline stations in the US in only a period of 2006, we bought lottery tickets that brought no benefit to us. A means of repelling the ninjas wasn't successful. Since then, we have never bought any lottery tickets and dabbled in gambling at all.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The excellence in the features of beauty, skill, physical ability, etc. shouldn't by any means be bad but should naturally be valuable. On the other hand, though the failures to come up to the standards in these attributes aren't desirable commonly, they aren't vicious. There are several causes for people to fall short of these standards in their lives, e.g. one's nature, lifestyle, misfortunate, different standards, and so on. A society where people don't only set high values on these attributes but also are somewhat friendly toward the nonstandard should be advisable.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
A replacement copy of 'The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume II Modern Applications' that the customer service department of the Cambridge University Press airmailed out about two weeks ago was delivered to me this afternoon. Unfortunately, it's in softcover, different from what's owned by me several years ago. Confirmed that it surely includes pages 395 to 426, which are missing in the hardcover book belonging to me. Of course, the important thing is its contents. The flaws of the hardcover book describing the anomalies in the global and gauge symmetries of the standard theory may be patched with this soft cover.
Friday, May 30, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
History repeats itself. It seems that the indifference of Japan toward the behaviors that redirect hostilities to it due to apparent maneuvering in domestic and diplomatic politics came up again.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Western meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
According to my experiences, severe heat waves and droughts hit the Southwestern US states when the effect of El Nino is growing. On the other side, according to the weather forecast programs, El Nino usually brings a cool summer in East Asia. However, Japan is hot in late May of this year. In many cities of Japan today, maximum temperatures are 30 degrees C (86 degrees F) or above. Here, in the highland city of Japan, it's about 28.6 degrees C.
The Internet connectivity has been unstable here for the last few days. Today, it's very bad.
