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A Step Toward the Diamond Age
An anonymous reader writes "Carnegie Institution researchers have learned to produce 10-carat, half-inch thick diamonds at rates of about 100 micrometers per hour, which in the diamond biz is blazingly fast. And these aren't cruddy, yellow diamonds either, but gem-quality stones. The goal: A 300 carat beast in whatever shape they want."
Eventually they'll be so common that they'll be pretty much worthless!
Viva la fight against capitalism!
My other processor is big-endian.
Some of us could finally get lucky.
You have been eaten by a Hurd of GNU.
We can finally end world hunger with an ampel supply of artifical carrots for everyone!
- python_kiss
Diamonds actually don't last forever, actually. Thermodynamically, it's in the favor of the graphite form of carbon. So all diamonds will eventually turn into graphite.
So whenever you go into a jeweler's shop, try to use that fact to bring the price down.
Gonna make me a "glass" house, and then I'm gonna throw me some STONES, oh, yeah.
Yeah, but who's gonna remember "Jigyasubalak's Law"?
'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
No, no, no! It is way better, dude. Now you can get your girlfriend a diamond dildo! Won't get any harder!
It figures... 3 months after I choke on the cost of a rock for my fiancee they release a diamond the size of her head... is there anything these days that doesn't go obsolete?
Next you'll be telling me my new computer is obsolete.
There's always something biger, faster, more sparkly.
I would rather be ashes than dust!
That's great, because by the time the average /. user starts looking for one, diamonds might be a dime a dozen...
eTrade SUCKS
"All natural-carbon diamond"
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
if anyone tells my girlfriend, they'll die a slow and horrible death.
Free as in mason.
Just shorten it to Jiglak's Law or even Jiglakslaw. Goes well with potato salad.
You call that a diamond?
This is a diamond.
I have seen it on a Discovery Channel documentary.
Whoa, I give up! Discovery Channel documentary! You had to go and pull out the big guns on us. Oh well, there goes my argument.
Hah. What about the plaids?
"Slashdotters who regularly vent their anger at Micro$oft's monopoly should read about the diamond industry, monopoly and de Beers."
Exactly! I may have [shame]bought microsoft products[/shame] in the past, but I will die a virgin before I buy a (natural) diamond.
More music, fewer hits
As a wedding jewel, a "natural" diamond represents the long process two people go through in their relationship. Maybe these new diamonds represent the new kind of relationship between people: "Diamond Age: Get married now! It's cheap, and over before you know it!"
Mr. Coward, I am quite interested in the services you seem to be offering...
For a cultured diamond, men just gave their time. For a blood diamond, men gave their lives. What can be more romantic than men dying for your jewelry?
What can be more romantic than men dying for your jewelry?
:)
</sarcasm>
Sarcasm? Clearly, you've never met a woman.
...and spell it correctly (or at least recognisably)?
chl
Romance IS shallow, almost by definition. It's performance art, nothing more. I cringe every time I think about Valentine's Day.
If two people want to spend time together when doing so doesn't either:
But I digress. Slashdot isn't the place for this. More appropriately:
In Soviet Russia, moody melancholy posts make you!
Yeah. That's the spirit.