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Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers
An anonymous reader writes "DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess. Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to offer some assistance to their DRAM chip makers. The chip makers' problems are indicative of global woes. Easy lending terms and a bright view of the future prompted them to build too many new DRAM factories. Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft's Windows Vista, which has higher memory requirements than XP."
I think that this is just another instance of customers locked into Win32-compatibility game. Joe Sixpack never needs more then 2GB of RAM. His Vista Home/XP home wouldn't use it anyway (OK, maybe 3GB). Applications stuck with 32-bits because, well, Joe Sixpack owns Win32 computer, not 64-bit one. DRAM companies are hostages in this game.
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That's being overly dramatic. All 3 wouldn't go down - what would happen is the company's value would plummet, the Chinese would buy them, the CxOs would be booted, and the unions would be abolished (and those who disagreed would lose their jobs), and they would then be run profitably. The infrastructure would mostly survive.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is wrong, whether Paul is a corporation or an individual.
Taxes aren't robbery. They are the dues you pay for living in this nation and all the advantages that grants. Taxes collected from 'Peter' always go to pay 'Paul'. That's the whole point of taxes, to pay for something.
Oh my god, you are one of those insane libertarian people! I knew you existed, I just didn't know I'd ever encounter you.