Webster:
one-upmanship
One entry found for one-upmanship.
Main Entry: one-upmanship
Variant(s): also one-upsmanship
Function: noun
: the art or practice of outdoing or keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
One-upmanship is, by definition, not groundbreaking. It is characterized by small hops.
Your poor analogy assumes that no one made a computer out of TTL chips (or anything smaller) between the time of Eniac and your high-school education.
I don't doubt that Sandia could one-up pico with something new and 1/8th the size if they threw PhDs and hundreds of thousands of dollars at it. I hope they do - I'd like to see it.
Slashdot Mirror
The laminate is 0.5 mm thick - it's referred to as 0.5 mm laminate. The board is 12 mm square.
Webster:
one-upmanship
One entry found for one-upmanship.
Main Entry: one-upmanship
Variant(s): also one-upsmanship
Function: noun
: the art or practice of outdoing or keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
One-upmanship is, by definition, not groundbreaking. It is characterized by small hops.
Your poor analogy assumes that no one made a computer out of TTL chips (or anything smaller) between the time of Eniac and your high-school education.
I don't doubt that Sandia could one-up pico with something new and 1/8th the size if they threw PhDs and hundreds of thousands of dollars at it. I hope they do - I'd like to see it.