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A flat, round piece of silicon that is used in the manufacture of microprocessors. Fabrication plants, or fabs, typically will take a wafer and carve many microprocessors into it. Over the years wafer size has been increasing so that more chips can be fit on a single wafer, from 6" to 8" to 12" in diameter in some plants today. Wafers are created by taking a cylinder of silicon and slicing it, much like taking a loaf of
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Wafer - On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:14:39 -0400, "George" wrote:Hmmm, I wonder if that (Costco part) is true for me. I became a member in1984 and that was the only time I signed anything for them and I sure don'trecall that part of the agreement...From their membership brochure:http://www.costco.com/Images/Content/Misc/PDF/Welcomebrochure.pdf9. General Policies�Members are welcome to bring their children and up to twoguests into the warehouse, however, only Costco members maypurchase items.� Parents are responsible for their children and should not leavethem unattended.�Members are responsible for their guests and other family members.� Costco reserves the right to inspect any container, backpack,briefcase, etc., upon entering or leaving the warehouse.� To ensure that all members are correctly charged for themerchandise purchased, all receipts and merchandise will beinspected as you leave the warehouse.� Shirts and shoes are required.� Liquor and Tobacco sales cannot be made to minors.� 2004 Costco Wholesale Corporation. All rights reserved.PRICE CLUB is the registered trademark of CostcoWholesale Corporation.I haven't tried that at Costco, but I've gotten annoyed at Fry's before (yougo through their checkout and there is virtually NOTHING between thecheckout and the door (except AOL disks) and yet they still try to stop you.I've almost never stopped and if they say anything, I ask if they have asearch warrant or care to call a cop if they think I've taken anything thatI didn't pay for...so far, no takers. Too bad, I could use the money...(BTW, is it just me or does anyone else wonder why they want to search thebag they supplied you with after just leaving the checkout, yet women's handbags that are large enough to hold 3 VCRs are off-limits?)I was shopping with a friend at Frys last week - we had bought about$200 worth of merchandise, including two 25 disk packs of DVD+R media.When the receipt checker looked at our register tape, we discoveredthat only one of the DVD+R packs had been entered - apparently theclerk assumed that the stack consisted of one 50 pack rather than two25 packs. The overall order was total was high enough that we didn'tnotice the underring. If we had taken the asshole approach yourecommend, we could have ended up being charged with shoplifting.By cooperating, we ended up paying exactly what we expected, and themisunderstanding was cleared up quickly.
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