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The global financial crisis that erupted in 2008 shows, with painful clarity, that we live in an interdependent business world. In bleak times and fair, the success of a company's strategy often depends greatly on the strategies of its competitors. In periods of financial turmoil, for instance, the prospects—and even survival—of a bank often depend on the near-term M&A of its rivals. Similarly, the ultimate success of Boeing's new commercial jet, the 787 Dreamliner, will depend on the way Airbus positions, markets, and sells its new and competing A380 and A350. Pfizer's ability to sustain market share and profitability in the market for cholesterol-lowering treatments will depend on the moves of the company's branded and generic pharmaceutical competitors, to say nothing of biotech and medical-product companies developing alternative treatments.
This strategic interdependence implies that the ability to anticipate your competitors' strategies is essential. Yet a recent survey of business executives found that the actions and reactions of potential rivals almost never play a role in, for example, decisions to introduce and price new products.1 1. David Montgomery, Marian Chapman Moore, and Joel Urbany, "Reasoning about competitive reactions: Evidence from executives," Marketing Science, 2005, Volume 24, Number 1, pp. 138–49. An important reason for this neglect, we believe, is that strategic-planning tools, such as game theory and scenario planning, are of limited use unless a company can correctly define the key elements of the strategic game, especially the strategic options and objectives of competitors. This is no easy task. Rare is the company that truly understands what its competitors and their decision makers care about most, how they perceive their assets and capabilities, and what all this means for their strategies. A company with such insights could reverse-engineer the moves of competitors and predict what they were likely to do. In a credit crunch, for instance, such a company would be well positioned to buy financial and nonfinancial assets at attractive prices if it knew that poorly capitalized competitors would avoid new risk and therefore not bid for these assets.
Getting inside your competitor's head is difficult because companies (and their decision makers) usually are not alike. At any time, a company has assets, resources, market positions, and capabilities it must protect, leverage, and build upon. Different endowments imply different strategies even in the same general market environment. What's more, even a competitor with similar endowments may pursue different strategies if its owners, stakeholders, and decision makers have a different objective.
So if you want to anticipate rather than react to strategic moves, you must analyze a competitor at two levels: organizational and individual. At the organizational level, you have to think like a strategist of your competitor by searching for the perfect strategic fit between its endowments and its changing market environment. At the individual level, you have to think like the decision makers of the competitor, identifying who among them makes which decisions and the influences and incentives guiding their choices. This approach moves you beyond the data-gathering efforts of most competitive-intelligence functions, toward a thought process that helps turn competitive intelligence into competitive insights. While our approach won't eliminate surprises, it will help you better understand your competitors and their likely moves and eliminate some of the guesswork that undermines the development of strategies in an increasingly interdependent business world.
When your competitor resembles you, chances are it will pursue similar strategies—what we call symmetric competition. When companies have different assets, resources, capabilities, and market positions, they will probably react to the same market opportunities and threats in different ways—what we call asymmetric competition. One of the keys to predicting a competitor's future strategies is to understand how much or little it resembles your company.
In the fast-food industry, for example, two leading players, McDonald's and Burger King, face the same market trends but have responded in markedly different ways to the obesity backlash. McDonald's has rolled out a variety of foods it promotes as healthy. Burger King has introduced high-fat, high-calorie sandwiches supported by in-your-face, politically incorrect ads. As the dominant player, McDonald's is the lightning rod for the consumer and government backlash on obesity. It can't afford to thumb its nose at these concerns. Smaller players like Burger King, realizing this, see an opportunity to cherry-pick share in the less health-conscious fast-food segment. Burger King competes asymmetrically.
Companies can determine whether they face symmetric or asymmetric competition by using the resource-based view of strategy: the idea that they should protect, leverage, extend, build, or acquire resources and capabilities that are valuable, rare, and inimitable and that can be successfully exploited. Resources come in three categories: tangible assets (for example, physical, technological, financial, and human resources), intangible assets (brands, reputation, and knowledge), and current market positions (access to customers, economies of scale and scope, and experience). Capabilities come in two categories: the ability both to identify and to exploit opportunities better than others do.
In the video-game-console business, the strategies of Microsoft and Sony, which are attempting to dominate next-generation systems, are largely predictable—based on each company's tangible and intangible assets and current market position. Although the core businesses of the two competitors will be affected by video game consoles differently, both sides see them as potential digital hubs replacing some current stand-alone consumer electronic devices, such as DVD players, and interconnecting with high-definition televisions, personal computers, MP3 players, digital cameras, and so forth.
For Sony, which has valuable businesses in consumer electronics and in audio and video content, it is important to establish the PlayStation as the living-room hub, so that any cannibalization of the company's consumer electronics businesses comes from within. After the recent victory of Sony's Blu-ray standard over Toshiba's HD-DVD, Sony stands to realize a huge payoff in future licensing revenues. The PlayStation, which plays only Blu-ray disks, is thus one of the company's most important vehicles in driving demand for Blu-ray gaming, video, and audio content.
Microsoft has limited hardware and content businesses but dominates personal computers and network software. Establishing the Xbox as the living-room hub would therefore help to protect and extend its software businesses. For Microsoft, it is crucial that the "digital living room" of the future should run on Microsoft software. If an Apple product became the hub of future "iHome" living rooms, Microsoft's software business might suffer.
Sony and Microsoft therefore have different motives for fighting this console battle. Yet the current market positions (existing businesses and economies of scope), tangible assets (patents, cash), and intangible assets (knowledge, brands) of both companies suggest that they will compete aggressively to win. It was predictable that they would produce consoles which, so far, have been far superior technologically to previous systems and interconnect seamlessly with the Internet, computers, and a wide variety of consumer electronics devices. It was also predictable that both companies would price their consoles below cost to establish an installed base in the world's living rooms quickly. The competition to win exclusive access to the best third-party developers' games, as well as consumer mind-share, will also probably continue to be waged more aggressively than it was in previous console generations. For Microsoft and Sony, the resource-based view of strategy helps us to understand that this battle is about far more than dominance in the video game industry and thus to identify the aggressive strategies both are likely to follow.
Nintendo, in contrast, is largely a pure-play video game company and thus an asymmetric competitor to Microsoft and Sony. The resource-based view of strategy explains why Nintendo's latest console, the Wii, focuses primarily on the game-playing experience and isn't positioned as a digital hub for living rooms. The Wii's most innovative feature is therefore a new, easy-to-use controller appealing to new and hardcore gamers alike. The Wii has few of the expensive digital-hub features built into the rival consoles and thus made its debut with a lower retail price.
Applying the resource-based view of strategy to competitors in a rigorous, systematic, and fact-based way can help you identify the options they will probably consider for any strategic issue. But if you want to gain better insight into which of those options your competitors are likeliest to choose, you have to move beyond a general analysis of their communications, behavior, assets, and capabilities and also think about the personal perceptions and incentives of their decision makers.
Since the objectives of corporate decision makers rarely align completely with corporate objectives, companies often act in ways that seem inconsistent with their stated strategic intentions or with the unbiased assessments of outsiders about the best paths for them to follow. So if you want to predict the next moves of a competitor, you must often consider the preferences and incentives of its decision makers.
The key to getting inside the head of a competitor making any decision is first identifying who is most likely to make it and then figuring out how the objectives and incentives of that person or group may influence the competitor's actions. In most companies, owners and top managers make divestment decisions, for example. Strategic pricing and service decisions are often made, within broad corporate guidelines, by frontline sales personnel and managers.
The objectives of the person or group with a controlling interest in your competitor probably have a major influence on its strategy. Sometimes, personal preferences are particularly relevant: it's likely that Virgin's pioneering foray into the commercial space travel industry partially reflects the adventurous tastes of its charismatic founder, Sir Richard Branson. For family-owned or -controlled businesses—public or private—family values, history, and relationships may drive strategy. A competitor owned by a private-equity firm is likely to focus on near-term performance improvements to generate cash and make the company more attractive to buyers. While every private-equity firm is different, you can often forecast the tactics any given one will take by studying its history, since many such firms often repeat their successful strategies.
Other stakeholders may also profoundly influence a company's strategy, so it often pays to get inside their heads as well. You can't evaluate any large strategic moves GM or Ford might make without considering the interests of the United Auto Workers and how those interests might check or facilitate such moves. The importance of nonowner stakeholders in driving a company's strategy varies by country of origin too. If you compete with a Chinese company, the Chinese government is often a critical stakeholder. In Europe, environmental organizations and other nongovernmental stakeholders exert more power over corporate decision making than they do in the United States.
Since the owners of companies hire top-level management to pursue the owners' strategic objectives, a Martian might think that management's decisions reflect those interests. Earthlings know that this may or may not be true. That's why you must study your competitor's top team.
First, that analysis provides another source of insight into the objectives of the company's owners. When James McNerney arrived at 3M in 2001, for instance, he brought along his belief in GE's "operating system," a centralized change-management methodology that inspired GE's successful approach to Six Sigma, globalization, and e-Business. If you were a 3M competitor, McNerney's history suggested that he would try to turn 3M, which had traditionally favored a fairly loose style of experimentation, into a more operationally accountable company. His hiring signaled the 3M board's intention to focus more aggressively than before on costs and quality. It surely came as no surprise to 3M's board or to the company's competitors that one of McNerney's first strategic moves was to launch a corporate Six Sigma program.
And of course, senior executives aren't always perfect "agents" for a company's owners, whose personal interests and incentives may differ from theirs. Such agency problems quite commonly bedevil even companies with the best governance practices, so it often pays to focus on the objectives of senior leaders as well.
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David J. Collis and Cynthia A. Montgomery, "Competing on resources: Strategy in the 1990s," Harvard Business Review, July 1995, Volume 73, Number 4, pp. 119–28.
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Michael Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy, "CEO incentives: It's not how much you pay, but how," Harvard Business Review, May 1990, Volume 68, Number 3, pp. 138–53.
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Hugh G. Courtney, "Games managers should play," mckinseyquarterly.com, June 2000.
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Competitors of a decentralized company must focus not only on the objectives of its owner and corporate leaders but also on those of business unit leaders, middle management, and even frontline staff. Until recently, for example, Ford was decentralized, with each geographic region run almost independently. Automotive competitors that wished to predict Ford's behavior would have needed to focus on the statements and actions of each regional and brand manager, because the company's objectives could vary from location to location and across divisions. But since Alan Mullaly took over as CEO in 2006, he has moved to coordinate some decisions and platforms across divisions and regions. Competitors must now understand what is still decided by regional managers and what by Detroit.
For certain decisions, frontline employees and managers are also important, especially if they make pricing, marketing, service, and operational decisions that significantly influence a company's competitive advantage. Even if decision making is more centralized, the incentives of frontline employees may be misaligned with the objectives of a company's owners or senior leaders. Agency problems may inspire the front line to undercut these objectives.
Suppose, for example, that the head of a division at one of your competitors wants its commissioned sales force to promote a new product. If the sales force is enjoying strong sales from established products, reps may hesitate to risk their compensation to promote the new one. A knowledge of such agency problems—which can often be detected through the chatter between your frontline sales force and the customers you share with competitors—can have great strategic importance for your company. In this case, agency problems will probably delay the point when the new product wins significant sales. You could exploit that time lag to fortify your own presence in the market and possibly to preempt the competitor's new offering.
What happens once you have a better sense of the options your competitors may consider and the way they may evaluate those options?
Let's say that your company's market environment is relatively stable and that you have much useful information about your main competitors and their decision makers. You can then apply game theory to determine, with considerable confidence, the strategies your competitors will probably follow to maximize their objectives, as well as the way your own choices may influence those strategies. Suppose, however, that even your best efforts don't give you a clear picture of the resources of your competitors or their decision makers' objectives. Then it is often best to avoid trying to predict the competition's exact behavior and instead to use scenario planning to test your company's strategic possibilities.
In a financial crisis, for example, even the best competitive-intelligence efforts may provide incomplete, excessively complex, or inconsistent information on the competition's strategies and thus fail to support game theory or scenario planning. We have found that one way of generating a point of view in such situations is to conduct "war games." In these exercises, each team, representing a specific competitor, receives a fact pack about that company and its decision makers. The teams then make key strategic decisions for the companies they represent. Through several rounds of competition, every team can act on its own strategies and react to the moves of other teams. The war game forces the players to combine incomplete, and perhaps inconsistent, information on competitors to develop a point of view about which moves make the most and least sense for them and are therefore the most and least likely moves for them to make.
No matter how thorough and insightful your analysis may be, two things are almost sure to happen: your competitor will make some moves you considered unlikely, and some of your data will quickly become obsolete. When a competitor acts in unexpected ways, your company has a crucial learning opportunity. Why were you wrong? Did you, say, miss an important agency problem that undermined the execution of the strategy you thought the competitor would follow? Did the market environment change, creating new threats and opportunities for the competitor? Did it bring in a new chairman or CEO? You must diagnose your mistakes, learn from them, and ensure that you use the latest data to develop your point of view.
Learning from your mistakes means managing these competitive-insight activities as an ongoing process for real-time strategic planning and decision making, not as an annual or biannual event in a bureaucratic planning process. Particularly in dynamic markets, where companies have to make decisions constantly, information about competitors must be updated as soon as possible (exhibit).
Developing competitive insights must be continuous to support strategic planning and decision making.
One key to making this ongoing process more insightful is tapping into the latest competitive intelligence dispersed throughout the frontline workforce. An e-mail address, a blog, or a shared database could let sales reps report on the latest pricing, promotion, negotiation, and sales tactics that competitors use with key customers or customer segments. Engineers might use such facilities to report the latest product pipeline rumors from professional conferences. When possible, companies should also establish appropriate information-sharing arrangements with key partners; suppliers, for example, may provide the latest intelligence on future input prices. As Ken McGee argues in Heads Up, most of the information needed for sound business strategy decisions is already available. You just have to create a process to capture and synthesize it meaningfully.
Particularly today, no company is an island. Those that most accurately perceive the competitive landscape as it is and is likely to be in the future have a distinct competitive advantage. Our process—focusing on changes in the resources, decision-making structures, and compensation systems of competitors—moves beyond the usual updates on key market trends and uncertainties. Its rewards are huge: fewer surprises from competitors and more opportunities to shape markets to your own advantage.
Hugh Courtney is an alumnus of McKinsey's Washington, DC, office, where John Horn is a consultant; Jayanti Kar is a consultant in the Toronto office.
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He leaves. And then everything falls apart.
He travels all the time for work. And you know I got this, right? I can work nine hours and pick up three kids in two places and feed everyone and lay out tomorrow's outfits and check math homework and bake brownies for the inevitable classroom party and explain magnetism and that when you say out-of-sane, I think you're really looking for the word "insane," and yes, that is how I'm feeling right now. Just a bit. But it's good. Because I'm a modern day superwoman.
(As are you, dear reader. I'm sure of it.)
(Unless you're a guy?)
I can make up for his food prep and his diaper changing but I can't make up for his presence, so this whole balancing act only sustains us through the waking hours.
Here's a fact: my kids are terrible sleepers. They always have been. I'm not the best sleeper, and my dad is a really terrible sleeper, so I'm thinking there's a genetic predisposition to insomnia and light sleeping and maybe this is all my dad's fault? Except my dad was the original professional co-parenter, so maybe I'm not assigning blame well right now.
Maybe I'm too tired to make any sense.
Anyway, back to our story: so during the day, my kids may not want me to take on their father's customary roles, but they deal with it moderately reasonably. At bedtime, though, this one only wants Daddy to read and that one says only Daddy can apply the perfect amount of toothpaste to a toothbrush and the third one? He's shrieking by now because Daddy should change his diaper and you know what I should do? I should go away. That's what he tells me, night after night. Go away! I don't want you in my room I WANT MY DADDY!
None of this particularly bothers me except that for all the collective daddy-wanting, I have no ability to conjure him in front of us so we still need to get to bed -- without him. And I'm down with the being yelled at because I like kids who like their daddies so in the big picture, this is all a good thing. In the here-and-now, could you pass the ear plugs, please?
This is what inevitably happens, in the cruelest snowball known to modern superwomanhood: bedtime takes longer than it should. Kids who've now stayed up too late have trouble falling asleep. Kids who go to sleep overtired don't sleep soundly. Kids wake up tired and are even more cranky by the next evening.
And my three little lovelies, the ones who don't sleep well in the best of circumstances? They're just a mess, all night long. I'm pretty sure that they set their decoder ring alarm clocks to coordinate their wakefulness because SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS AWAKE.
This is tax season: the lovely husband? His biggest work project of the year is unfolding right now. When he travels away from us, those three little lovelies eventually succumb to the numbing desperation that is his absence and fall into a modified acceptance of my single-parenting. But for this past week, the lovely husband hasn't actually gone away, he's just been gone from the house because he's been working 18- and 20-hour days at the office.
Really. He came home at 2:35am
**I know, because I was awake then, because one of the not-to-be-named littles was awake then.
This week is the hardest of the whole year. When nobody sleeps, nothing else happens. Instead of coming downstairs from their bedtimes to tend to the house and the dishes and the laundry and the mail and the uniform that must be washed and the toy that must be glued, I fall asleep in someone's bed at bedtime. I'm not upset at myself about it because if I only sleep from 8:30-11:45pm every night, that's sleep that should be had. Last night I woke up in L's bed at 11:45 and went downstairs. But G woke up screaming from a nightmare at about 12:15. And then he yelled at me when I walked in. But Mommy, you said Daddy is coming home I DON'T WANT YOU I WANT MY DADDY! Sorry, kid. Not tonight. Not yet.
I think every single toy is out and on the floor. Every single dairy dish is dirty (we keep kosher -- if the dairy thing didn't make sense to you, don't worry about it). There are at least two rooms in the house carpeted in tissues because Mr. G has a habit of pulling them out of the box one-by-one for fun.
(Say it with me: good thing he's cute!)
This week is a card catalog of failures, because I can't uphold any personal commitments. It's a horror-story diorama of home-ec anarchy. It's a sanguine confessional: it's all good, guys. Sometimes having it all means letting it all fall apart around you. I boil it all down to its essence: nourishment, shelter, clean underpants, and all the 2am reassurance a child could ever want. Everything else can wait.
This mess, this life, the bags under my eyes, my genetically-sleep-depraved [n.b. not a typo] kids who miss their daddy but are proud of how hard he works? It's just tax season. I step over the toys and wash just enough dishes and maybe everyone gets applesauce instead of fresh fruit with dinner, because I have no energy to chop it (and there's no clean cutting board). But I smile at them extra-much and hug them extra-squeezy and drink larger cups of coffee.
The weekend of the big project has arrived and the lovely husband has moved into a hotel downtown for the duration. He'll come home Tuesday. The kids will squeal. They'll go to sleep faster and happier, post-child evenings will again exist, and we'll put all the messy pieces back together. That's how it goes. Truth: this having-it-all life is hard, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
(Even then, though, they still won't sleep through the night, my out-of-sane nocturns.)


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US 7182436 B2 Abstract An inkjet printhead chip includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink supply channels. A drive circuitry layer is positioned in the substrate. A plurality of nozzle arrangements is positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber structure arranged on the substrate and defining walls of a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a respective ink supply channel. A deformable roof structure is arranged on the nozzle chamber structure. The roof structure is deformable on receipt of an actuating signal from the drive circuitry, reciprocally to reduce and enlarge a volume of the nozzle chamber. The roof structure defines an ink ejection port such that, upon such reduction and enlargement, a drop of ink is ejected from the ink ejection port.
Claims(8) 1. An inkjet printhead integrated circuit that comprises
a substrate that defines a plurality of ink supply channels;
a drive circuitry layer that is positioned in the substrate; and
a plurality of nozzle arrangements that is positioned on the substrate, each nozzle arrangement comprising
a nozzle chamber structure arranged on the substrate and defining walls of a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a respective ink supply channel; and
a deformable roof structure arranged on the nozzle chamber structure and being at least partially defined by a plurality of discrete actuators, each actuator being configured to be heated on receipt of an electrical signal from the drive circuitry so as to experience differential thermal expansion and contraction, reciprocally to reduce and enlarge a volume of the nozzle chamber, the roof structure defining an ink ejection port such that, upon such reduction and enlargement, a drop of ink is ejected from the ink ejection port.
2. An inkjet printhead integrated circuit as claimed in
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Description This application is a continuation application of U.S. Ser. No. 10/728,796, filed on Dec. 8, 2003, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,966,633, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 10/303,291 filed on Nov. 23, 2002, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,672,708, which is a Continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09/855,093 filed May 14, 2001, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,505,912, which is a Continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09/112,806 filed Jul. 10, 1998, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,247,790. The following Australian provisional patent applications are hereby incorporated by cross-reference. For the purposes of location and identification, US patent applications identified by their US patent application Ser. Nos. (USSN) or patent Numbers are listed alongside the Australian applications from which the US patent applications claim the right of priority.
Not applicable. The present invention relates to the field of inkjet printing and, in particular, discloses an inverted radial back-curling thermoelastic ink jet printing mechanism. Many different types of printing mechanisms have been invented, a large number of which are presently in use. The known forms of printers have a variety of methods for marking the print media with a relevant marking media. Commonly used forms of printing include offset printing, laser printing and copying devices, dot matrix type impact printers, thermal paper printers, film recorders, thermal wax printers, dye sublimation printers and ink jet printers both of the drop on demand and continuous flow type. Each type of printer has its own advantages and problems when considering cost, speed, quality, reliability, simplicity of construction and operation etc. In recent years the field of ink jet printing, wherein each individual pixel of ink is derived from one or more ink nozzles, has become increasingly popular primarily due to its inexpensive and versatile nature. Many different techniques of ink jet printing have been invented. For a survey of the field, reference is made to an article by J Moore, �Non-Impact Printing: Introduction and Historical Perspective�, Output Hard Copy Devices, Editors R Dubeck and S Sherr, pages 207�220 (1988). Ink Jet printers themselves come in many different forms. The utilization of a continuous stream of ink in ink jet printing appears to date back to at least 1929 wherein U.S. Pat. No. 1,941,001 by Hansell discloses a simple form of continuous stream electro-static ink jet printing. U.S. Pat. No. 3,596,275 by Sweet also discloses a process of a continuous ink jet printing including a step wherein the ink jet stream is modulated by a high frequency electro-static field so as to cause drop separation. This technique is still utilized by several manufacturers including Elmjet and Scitex (see also U.S. Pat. No. 3,373,437 by Sweet et al). Piezoelectric ink jet printers are also one form of commonly utilized ink jet printing device. Piezoelectric systems are disclosed by Kyser et. al. in U.S. Pat. No. 3,946,398 (1970) which utilizes a diaphragm mode of operation, by Zolten in U.S. Pat. No. 3,683,212 (1970) which discloses a squeeze mode form of operation of a piezoelectric crystal, Stemme in U.S. Pat. No. 3,747,120 (1972) which discloses a bend mode of piezoelectric operation, Howkins in U.S. Pat. No. 4,459,601 which discloses a piezoelectric push mode actuation of the ink jet stream and Fischbeck in U.S. Pat. No. 4,584,590 which discloses a shear mode type of piezoelectric transducer element. Recently, thermal ink jet printing has become an extremely popular form of ink jet printing. The ink jet printing techniques include those disclosed by Endo et al in GB 2007162 (1979) and Vaught et al in U.S. Pat. No. 4,490,728. Both the aforementioned references disclose ink jet printing techniques which rely on the activation of an electrothermal actuator which results in the creation of a bubble in a constricted space, such as a nozzle, which thereby causes the ejection of ink from an aperture connected to the confined space onto a relevant print media. Printing devices utilizing the electro-thermal actuator are manufactured by manufacturers such as Canon and Hewlett Packard. As can be seen from the foregoing, many different types of printing technologies are available. Ideally, a printing technology should have a number of desirable attributes. These include inexpensive construction and operation, high speed operation, safe and continuous long term operation etc. Each technology may have its own advantages and disadvantages in the areas of cost, speed, quality, reliability, power usage, simplicity of construction and operation, durability and consumables. According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an inkjet printhead chip that comprises
A number of actuators may be positioned in each roof structure about the ink ejection port. Each actuator may include an actuator arm that is connected to the drive circuitry layer and extends towards the ink ejection port. A heating circuit may be embedded in the actuator arm to receive the electrical signal from the drive circuitry layer. The actuator arm may be of a material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion sufficient to permit the material to perform work as a result of thermal expansion and contraction. The heating circuit may be positioned so that the actuator arm is subjected to differential thermal expansion and contraction to displace the actuator arm towards and away from the respective ink supply channel. Each actuator arm may be of polytetrafluoroethylene while each heating circuit may be one of the materials in a group including gold and copper. Each actuator arm may include an actuating portion that is connected to the drive circuitry layer. An ink displacement member may be positioned on the actuating portion to extend towards the ink ejection port. Each roof structure may include a rim that defines the ink ejection port, the rim being supported above the respective ink inlet channel with support arms that extend from the rim to the drive circuitry layer. The actuator arms may be interposed between consecutive support arms. The drive circuitry layer may be a CMOS layer. According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided a nozzle arrangement for an ink jet printhead, the arrangement comprising: a nozzle chamber defined in a wafer substrate for the storage of ink to be ejected; an ink ejection port having a rim formed on one wall of the chamber; and a series of actuators attached to the wafer substrate, and forming a portion of the wall of the nozzle chamber adjacent the rim, the actuator paddles further being actuated in unison so as to eject ink from the nozzle chamber via the ink ejection nozzle. According to a third aspect of the invention there is provided an ink jet nozzle arrangement comprising: a nozzle chamber including a first wall in which an ink ejection port is defined; and an actuator for effecting ejection of ink from the chamber through the ink ejection port on demand, the actuator being formed in the first wall of the nozzle chamber: wherein said actuator extends substantially from said ink ejection port to other walls defining the nozzle chamber. The actuators can include a surface which bends inwards away from the centre of the nozzle chamber upon actuation. The actuators are preferably actuated by means of a thermal actuator device. The thermal actuator device may comprise a conductive resistive heating element encased within a material having a high coefficient of thermal expansion. The element can be serpentine to allow for substantially unhindered expansion of the material. The actuators are preferably arranged radially around the nozzle rim. The actuators can form a membrane between the nozzle chamber and an external atmosphere of the arrangement and the actuators bend away from the external atmosphere to cause an increase in pressure within the nozzle chamber thereby initiating a consequential ejection of ink from the nozzle chamber. The actuators can bend away from a central axis of the nozzle chamber. The nozzle arrangement can be formed on the wafer substrate utilizing micro-electro mechanical techniques and further can comprise an ink supply channel in communication with the nozzle chamber. The ink supply channel may be etched through the wafer. The nozzle arrangement may include a series of struts which support the nozzle rim. The arrangement can be formed adjacent to neighbouring arrangements so as to form a pagewidth printhead. Notwithstanding any other forms which may fall within the scope of the present invention, preferred forms of the invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: In the preferred embodiment, ink is ejected out of a nozzle chamber via an ink ejection port using a series of radially positioned thermal actuator devices that are arranged about the ink ejection port and are activated to pressurize the ink within the nozzle chamber thereby causing the ejection of ink through the ejection port. Turning now to A top of the nozzle arrangement 1 includes a series of radially positioned actuators 8, 9. These actuators comprise a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) layer and an internal serpentine copper core 17. Upon heating of the copper core 17, the surrounding PTFE expands rapidly resulting in a generally downward movement of the actuators 8, 9. Hence, when it is desired to eject ink from the ink ejection port 4, a current is passed through the actuators 8, 9 which results in them bending generally downwards as illustrated in The actuators 8, 9 are activated only briefly and subsequently deactivated. Consequently, the situation is as illustrated in In Turning now to As shown initially in The first step, as illustrated in Next, as illustrated in Next, as illustrated in Next, as illustrated in Next, as illustrated in Next, as illustrated in In In this manner, large pagewidth printheads can be fabricated so as to provide for a drop-on-demand ink ejection mechanism. One form of detailed manufacturing process which can be used to fabricate monolithic ink jet printheads operating in accordance with the principles taught by the present embodiment can proceed utilizing the following steps: 1. Using a double-sided polished wafer 60, complete a 0.5 micron, one poly, 2 metal CMOS process 61. This step is shown in 2. Etch the CMOS oxide layers down to silicon or second level metal using Mask 1. This mask defines the nozzle cavity and the edge of the chips. This step is shown in 3. Deposit a thin layer (not shown) of a hydrophilic polymer, and treat the surface of this polymer for PTFE adherence. 4. Deposit 1.5 microns of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) 62. 5. Etch the PTFE and CMOS oxide layers to second level metal using Mask 2. This mask defines the contact vias for the heater electrodes. This step is shown in 6. Deposit and pattern 0.5 microns of gold 63 using a lift-off process using Mask 3. This mask defines the heater pattern. This step is shown in 7. Deposit 1.5 microns of PTFE 64. 8. Etch 1 micron of PTFE using Mask 4. This mask defines the nozzle rim 65 and the rim at the edge 66 of the nozzle chamber. This step is shown in 9. Etch both layers of PTFE and the thin hydrophilic layer down to silicon using Mask 5. This mask defines a gap 67 at inner edges of the actuators, and the edge of the chips. It also forms the mask for a subsequent crystallographic etch. This step is shown in 10. Crystallographically etch the exposed silicon using KOH. This etch stops on <111> crystallographic planes 68, forming an inverted square pyramid with sidewall angles of 54.74 degrees. This step is shown in 11. Back-etch through the silicon wafer (with, for example, an ASE Advanced Silicon Etcher from Surface Technology Systems) using Mask 6. This mask defines the ink inlets 69 which are etched through the wafer. The wafer is also diced by this etch. This step is shown in 12. Mount the printheads in their packaging, which may be a molded plastic former incorporating ink channels which supply the appropriate color ink to the ink inlets 69 at the back of the wafer. 13. Connect the printheads to their interconnect systems. For a low profile connection with minimum disruption of airflow, TAB may be used. Wire bonding may also be used if the printer is to be operated with sufficient clearance to the paper. 14. Fill the completed print heads with ink 70 and test them. A filled nozzle is shown in The presently disclosed ink jet printing technology is potentially suited to a wide range of printing systems including: color and monochrome office printers, short run digital printers, high speed digital printers, offset press supplemental printers, low cost scanning printers high speed pagewidth printers, notebook computers with inbuilt pagewidth printers, portable color and monochrome printers, color and monochrome copiers, color and monochrome facsimile machines, combined printer, facsimile and copying machines, label printers, large format plotters, photograph copiers, printers for digital photographic �minilabs�, video printers, PHOTO CD (PHOTO CD is a registered trade mark of the Eastman Kodak Company) printers, portable printers for PDAs, wallpaper printers, indoor sign printers, billboard printers, fabric printers, camera printers and fault tolerant commercial printer arrays. It would be appreciated by a person skilled in the art that numerous variations and/or modifications may be made to the present invention as shown in the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as broadly described. The present embodiments are, therefore, to be considered in all respects to be illustrative and not restrictive. Ink Jet Technologies The embodiments of the invention use an ink jet printer type device. Of course many different devices could be used. However presently popular ink jet printing technologies are unlikely to be suitable. The most significant problem with thermal ink jet is power consumption. This is approximately 100 times that required for high speed, and stems from the energy-inefficient means of drop ejection. This involves the rapid boiling of water to produce a vapor bubble which expels the ink. Water has a very high heat capacity, and must be superheated in thermal ink jet applications. This leads to an efficiency of around 0.02%, from electricity input to drop momentum (and increased surface area) out. The most significant problem with piezoelectric ink jet is size and cost. Piezoelectric crystals have a very small deflection at reasonable drive voltages, and therefore require a large area for each nozzle. Also, each piezoelectric actuator must be connected to its drive circuit on a separate substrate. This is not a significant problem at the current limit of around 300 nozzles per printhead, but is a major impediment to the fabrication of pagewidth printheads with 19,200 nozzles. Ideally, the ink jet technologies used meet the stringent requirements of in-camera digital color printing and other high quality, high speed, low cost printing applications. To meet the requirements of digital photography, new ink jet technologies have been created. The target features include: low power (less than 10 Watts) high resolution capability (1,600 dpi or more) photographic quality output low manufacturing cost small size (pagewidth times minimum cross section) high speed (<2 seconds per page). All of these features can be met or exceeded by the ink jet systems described below with differing levels of difficulty. Forty-five different ink jet technologies have been developed by the Assignee to give a wide range of choices for high volume manufacture. These technologies form part of separate applications assigned to the present Assignee as set out in the table below under the heading Cross References to Related Applications. The ink jet designs shown here are suitable for a wide range of digital printing systems, from battery powered one-time use digital cameras, through to desktop and network printers, and through to commercial printing systems. For ease of manufacture using standard process equipment, the printhead is designed to be a monolithic 0.5 micron CMOS chip with MEMS post processing. For color photographic applications, the printhead is 100 mm long, with a width which depends upon the ink jet type. The smallest printhead designed is IJ38, which is 0.35 mm wide, giving a chip area of 35 square mm. The printheads each contain 19,200 nozzles plus data and control circuitry. Ink is supplied to the back of the printhead by injection molded plastic ink channels. The molding requires 50 micron features, which can be created using a lithographically micromachined insert in a standard injection molding tool. Ink flows through holes etched through the wafer to the nozzle chambers fabricated on the front surface of the wafer. The printhead is connected to the camera circuitry by tape automated bonding. Tables of Drop-on-Demand Ink Jets Eleven important characteristics of the fundamental operation of individual ink jet nozzles have been identified. These characteristics are largely orthogonal, and so can be elucidated as an eleven dimensional matrix. Most of the eleven axes of this matrix include entries developed by the present assignee. The following tables form the axes of an eleven dimensional table of ink jet types. Actuator mechanism (18 types) Basic operation mode (7 types) Auxiliary mechanism (8 types) Actuator amplification or modification method (17 types) Actuator motion (19 types) Nozzle refill method (4 types) Method of restricting back-flow through inlet (10 types) Nozzle clearing method (9 types) Nozzle plate construction (9 types) Drop ejection direction (5 types) Ink type (7 types) The complete eleven dimensional table represented by these axes contains 36.9 billion possible configurations of ink jet nozzle. While not all of the possible combinations result in a viable ink jet technology, many million configurations are viable. It is clearly impractical to elucidate all of the possible configurations. Instead, certain ink jet types have been investigated in detail. These are designated IJ01 to IJ45 above which matches the docket numbers in the table under the heading Cross References to Related Applications. Other ink jet configurations can readily be derived from these forty-five examples by substituting alternative configurations along one or more of the 11 axes. Most of the IJ01 to IJ45 examples can be made into ink jet printheads with characteristics superior to any currently available ink jet technology. Where there are prior art examples known to the inventor, one or more of these examples are listed in the examples column of the tables below. The IJ01 to IJ45 series are also listed in the examples column. In some cases, print technology may be listed more than once in a table, where it shares characteristics with more than one entry. Suitable applications for the ink jet technologies include: Home printers, Office network printers, Short run digital printers, Commercial print systems, Fabric printers, Pocket printers, Internet WWW printers, Video printers, Medical imaging, Wide format printers, Notebook PC printers, Fax machines, Industrial printing systems, Photocopiers, Photographic minilabs etc. The information associated with the aforementioned 11 dimensional matrix are set out in the following tables.
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Kathy KelleyCaruso Molecular Steam HairsetterI had originally purchased a Caruso Hairsetter when they first came out because I have very baby-fine hair. I was still using this same hairsetter when I decided to purchase a new one and save the old one for a back up! I just love this hairsetter. It gives my hair volume and curl and sometimes lasts more than one day. Thanks for making such a wonderful product!posted Dec 10, 2004Link to this post
Minnie HerdisonFort Smith, ArkansasThe Most Wonderful Hair Setter In The World.I have owned 7 caruso steam hair setters over the past 17 years. I cannot even imagine being without one. I keep one extra on hand just incase the old one goes out. I have purchased 5 for gifts for people who wonder how i keep my hair looking so great all the time and so fast. I can roll and comb out my hair in 15 minutes. Most days I only have to curl every other day. I love it.posted Nov 16, 2004Link to this post
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Phoronix: Unigine OilRush Moves A Bit Further Along
Unigine Corp has released an update today to their first in-house game, OilRush, for those that have pre-ordered this real-time strategy. The Unigine OilRush 0.63 build improves the AI, improves system performance, introduces new maps, adds in new environments and visual effects, among other changes and additions...
I absolutely hate managing non-prepackaged programs. Does this have an .rpm (upon purchase) yet?
And how is the advertising going? I've not yet seen it touted anywhere but on Phoronix, but admittedly I haven't gone out of my way to look.
There's already a Mac OS X client avaible.
Wonder if this requires Nvidia/AMD to run, i'm getting this error on my SNB box:
EDIT:Code:---- Render ---- GLRender::GLRender(): Unknown GPU OpenGL vendor: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile OpenGL version: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel) Unigine fatal error ALExt::init(): can't open device Can't initialize OpenAL. Install driver for your sound card. GLRender::GLRender(): Unknown GPU GLRender::require_extension(): required extension GL_ARB_vertex_array_object is not supported Shutdown
Yup, requirements says it does.. Bummer.
Last edited by Dr.Diesel; 05-25-2011 at 08:48 AM.
I pre-ordered and do like the game, am a bit sad about the low numbers but also have to say there is very little news about it out there. bluesnews is still one of my favorite game news sites and it has 3 entries: sept 1, dec 19 and may 4. Other games in beta who release these sort of builds are listed on it each time.... they got to promote it more in the main stream ?
Well Michael, if you want to get your readers more interested in this game you should also mention that it now runs on the opens source drivers (at least on r600g with linux 2.6.39, latest mesa from git compiled with floating point textures support and libtxc_dxtn installed). The frame rate is not yet playable, at least not on my Radeon HD 3650, but it starts and is rendered correctly. The same goes for the Unigine benchmarks, of course.
It would be nice to see a benchmark of oilrush on various ATI and maybe Nvidia cards if noveau works as well, to see if any can reach at least 30 fps.
Did you manually update oss drivers and started the 32 bit binary on a 64 bit system? Maybe install libopenal1 globally too as it is missing.
That usually means the game haven't been tested on anything else and that you're on your own when it comes to support etc.
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OMG I bought this color the other day and when I swatched it for my blog I feel in LOVE!! It is so unbelieveably cute and is great for spring! This polish also last long and it isn't streacky which is great!!
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These are an iffy. I do buy them given they are so cheap and good quality for the price you pay, and have many colors. But they can go wrong. Some are incredibly pigmented. Some you have to apply 3 layers before you get the color pay off. I wish they would advertise weather or not the product is sheer. The only thing I notice is if the products has a matte finish the product gets thicker wayyy quicker then the shimmery ones. Overall though for $3, why not. I keep the matte colors in the fridge and this way they last a lot longer.
I REALLY wanted to love this product, but I don't like having to put 9 coats on for it to be opaque. I have the lavender one. It's also really thick and takes a long time to dry, especially after 56 coats it takes to look ok. Good colors, but mediocre polish.
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I am always a fan of Sally Hansen nail polish so it's no surprise that the Xtreme line is anything less than amazing. The formula is really opaque and even one coat is enough! It's really easy to apply and the color stays true to the bottle so what you see is what you get. I am on my third day (with only one coat!) and there are very minimal chippings. As you can see from my picture I was really excited with it! I have many other colors from the Xtreme wear line and all of them live up to the 5 star standard. It's quite possibly even my favorite nail polish brand. Make sure to go try it out for yourself!
I love Sally Hansen nail polishes, they're affordable and they last awhile. I have the shade called, "white on" which is just a plain white nail polish. It works great, you only need two coats of it. I have other shades as well and they are great too. Overall, I recommend this brand!
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Just for this colour, no. Its good as a topcoat on top of any other blue, but alone, it takes approximately 3 coats and its impossible to dry after that. Not my favorite shade. Other shades such as violet voltage or hot magenta are fabulous.
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Fitness: Choosing Activities That Are Right for You
When you're active, life can be better.
Being active helps you look and feel your best and lowers your risk for a heart attack, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and some cancers. It gives you the energy to do the things that make you happy.
But it can be hard to get into the habit of daily activity. It's important to find activities that fit your lifestyle and your personality.
People who want to be as healthy as possible need to make physical activity a regular part of their lives. That's not always easy these days. Most of us never seem to have enough time for everything we need or want to do.
The key is to figure out what your likes and dislikes are as they apply to being active. Then you can find the right activities for you and turn them into a lifelong habit that leads to better health.
Many people make the mistake of choosing a particular activity just because it's popular at the time or because someone else they know is doing it. Sometimes that works. But if the activity doesn't fit you, you're much less likely to enjoy it and keep doing it.
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You are more likely to make physical activity a habit if the activity fits your lifestyle and personality.
The activities you choose are important because you will be doing them almost every day. Your goal is to make physical activity a daily habit. And you're much more likely to build new habits if you enjoy what you're doing.
To feel your best, you need at least 2½ hours of moderate activity a week. Brisk walking is an example. But any activities—including daily chores—that raise your heart rate can be included. It's fine to be active in spurts of 10 minutes or more throughout your day and week.
Another important part of choosing an activity is having your own reason for wanting to be active. It's not always easy to make activity a regular part of your life. Taking the time now to really think about what motivates or inspires you will help you stay with it.
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It's easy to make physical activity a habit, whether you like what you're doing or not.
Look for activities that you enjoy and that fit your lifestyle. Answering the questions below may help you figure out what activities would be best for you. After you've thought about your answers, read this list of ideas for getting active.
- Do you prefer being active by yourself or with others? Joining a group or a class can help keep you motivated. But some people are more likely to stay with an activity or exercise if they do it alone.
- Do you enjoy being outdoors when possible, or do you feel safer and more confident in an indoor setting? Many people love being outside. But you may not like it when the weather is too hot, too cold, or too wet. Or you may be uncomfortable being alone outdoors away from home. If you're mostly an indoor person, keep that in mind when you choose an activity.
- Do you prefer activities that involve some contact (soccer, basketball) or no contact? Choose swimming over basketball, for example, if you don't like the idea of contact sports.
- Do you prefer to compete with others, compete with yourself, or not compete at all? Everyone is different. Some people do better if they have someone to compete with—even if that someone is themselves. Others do better when there's no competition to worry about. For example, choose gardening or dancing over team sports or tennis if you don't like competition.
- Do you prefer activities that also involve some mental challenge, or do you prefer not to have to think or concentrate while you are being active? Many team sports exercise your brain as well as your body as you think about what your next move should be. Mountain biking requires you to pay close attention to your surroundings and where you're headed. If you'd rather shut off your brain and let your body do the work, try doing housework set to music, raking leaves, or going for a walk or a jog.
- Do you prefer being active in the morning, midday, or evening? We all have different body clocks that make us more energetic at certain parts of the day. And our schedules often determine when we can take the time to exercise and when we can't. Which part of the day is best for you? The better you plan your activity times to match your energy levels and your daily schedule, the more likely you are to keep up your healthy activity habits.
- Are you interested in taking classes or getting instruction to learn a new activity? You may not know how much you'll enjoy a certain activity until you become familiar with it. A class or other type of lesson can help you find out. If you don't want to join a class, choose something you can learn or do on your own.
- Do you prefer everyday activities, such as gardening, to more structured activities? Many people find everyday activities easier to keep doing. Others feel they are more likely to stay with an activity if it requires them to show up for a class or for a game.
- How much money are you willing to spend on gear or other expenses related to an activity? There are activities to match every budget. You can walk around your neighborhood without spending any money. Exercise DVDs involve a small one-time cost. You may be able to join a community yoga or tai chi class for a small fee.
Sometimes people try a sport or activity one time, buy expensive equipment or clothes for that activity, and then never use them again. It's usually a mistake to think that you will keep up with a particular sport or activity just because you've invested money in it. Wait until you know that you really enjoy the activity, and then spend the money. In some cases, you can rent the equipment to find out if you like the sport.
On the other hand, spending a little money can be a wise investment in your health. For example, joining a fitness center or gym can help you succeed at becoming more active. A fitness professional can help you plan a routine and learn proper form and technique.
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To be successful at becoming or staying active, you should choose an activity that involves some sort of competition or mental strategy.
This answer is incorrect.
It all depends on your personality and your lifestyle. Some people do better when they don't have to compete or think about what they're doing. Others need the pressure of competition or mental stimulation to stay active.
This answer is correct.
It all depends on your personality and your lifestyle. Some people do better when they don't have to compete or think about what they're doing. Others need the pressure of competition or mental stimulation to stay active.
Now that you have read this information, you may feel more prepared to find an activity that will fit your personality and your lifestyle.
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Dress your little one in warm and cozy Jags spirit in this fleece footed sleeper. It features a team color fleece body with an embroidered team logo on the left chest. The sleeper also has contrasting team color collar and cuffs, while the footies are protected with white "football grip" printing on the bottom. The entire piece zips from the collar to the foot with a collar snap for a safe and sound display of charming team pride!
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Too many and never enough...
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My tinitus has taken on a whole new tone. GREAT people. GREAT host.
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Mark and his wife showed us unbelievable hospitality...thank you for an absolutely amazing time....doesn't get any better.
oh yeah....the rest of you ain't so bad either.
Actually...some of the nicest and most genuine group of folks I have ever met.
It appears that Hans was not the only person to travel great distance & have an NGD. The young lad from down under travled about 9500 miles to have an NGD with Hans!
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Fanboy of the Jester (AKA) James (Previously known as 11top)
3Mike..... searching for a new Avatar
Is it in the PRS book?????
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Is it on Ang's iPad???
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A Private Stock on the back wall perhaps?????
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On the Stage????
Awesome pics! Looks like a great time.
Looks like someone left the door open & a wild animal got in the house.........
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