Some competition would be great, to keep Intel from reaching dominace over that market. I've feared for a long time, that if AMD should go bust prices would rise sharply.
Put a 50$ tax on 100$ Notebooks? That'll doom Projects like OLPC and Netbooks. And btw where does a computer start? The grey box under your desk for 500$ or the MP3 player for 30$? Since low-end computers and consumer electronics are dirt cheap a huge tax would kill the market. A tax based on the price of the product (lets say 5%) would go almost unnoticed.
If the atoms get hit by some radiation the molecule should either break or (if hit whilst calculating) return a wrong value. So basically you'll have to cover your computer with 8 cm of lead, which istn't exactly in EU health standards.
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Some competition would be great, to keep Intel from reaching dominace over that market. I've feared for a long time, that if AMD should go bust prices would rise sharply.
Put a 50$ tax on 100$ Notebooks? That'll doom Projects like OLPC and Netbooks. And btw where does a computer start? The grey box under your desk for 500$ or the MP3 player for 30$? Since low-end computers and consumer electronics are dirt cheap a huge tax would kill the market. A tax based on the price of the product (lets say 5%) would go almost unnoticed.
If the atoms get hit by some radiation the molecule should either break or (if hit whilst calculating) return a wrong value. So basically you'll have to cover your computer with 8 cm of lead, which istn't exactly in EU health standards.