This is somewhat obvious, but video games make a ton of money. A proffessor of mine last semseter told our class that video games actual have the largest percent of the market in terms of microprocessor sales.
Sure you can open source the developement, but somebody's going to have the bucks to pay for making the cds. W/ the mini-disk format, you're still going to have the financial hurdle of a proprietary format + licensing fees.
Your idealism has noble intentions, but there is no reason to fault people for indulging themselves. Of course there is an obvious point where self-indulgence is harmful to the population at large, but this is hardly a case of that. Would you fault somebody for buying new sports equipment so they feel they can play better instead of giving it directly to a charity? People work for their money, and they should be allowed to spend it as they see fit.
There is also the famous case of the horse who could do math. The owner would ask math questions, and the horse would beat out the answer with it's hoof. As it turns out, the owner was unintentionally giving out subtle signs with his facial expressions, indicating the horse had reaced the correct answer.
It's extremely impressive that the horse could recognize such changes in expression, but it demonstrated a type of intelligence that is fundamentally different from the kind exhibited by humans and chimps.
Someone was once describing the art of writing patents to me. The idea is basically to make the patent wording broad enough to cover all future derivations of the patent, but at the same time not cover anything that had been developed before. Apparently, the most profitable patent ever written was for the first word processor and was something to the extent of "A program that tabs across the screen and fills in the blank spaces." I can't say this is true, since I heard it second hand, but this basically covers all forms of word processors (word, wp, etc) and any other form type programs. I guess at the time, all other programs didn't follow this same flow of tabbing across the screen, so they didn't fall under the patent application. If this is true, some serious bank must have been made.
Your rant smacks of elitism, and your arrogance demonstrates a rather myopic view what the internet can be used for. This sort of intellectual chest thumping is full of massive generalizations, and as such, your opinions strike me as shallow. Your comments about US politics strike me as a knee-jerk reaction of an underinformed idealist, rather than having any sort of insight or worthwhile commentary.
As a general principle, the content of the internet should in no way be filtered, and the same goes for the users. The uninitiated user, who may get their service from AOL, has just as much of a right to be using the internet as you, no matter what their intent is.
If I remember right, resistance is inversely proportional to the cross-section area of the wire (i.e. how fat the wire is), but also directly proportional to lenght. something like R = K L/A, where K is some constant Assuming we're only changing dimensions in the x and y directions, L and A will be reduced by the same factor. i.e. smaller by a factor of s implies R = K (s*L / s*A). I'm asusming the z axis is not affected by this technology because that part of manufacturing is controlled by chemical reaction rates, instead of photolithography. If z were reduced to, A would be sized by a factor of s^2 instead of just s. So, I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if the x and y dimensions were reduced by the same factor, the effective resistance would remain the same.
Modern photolithography techniques WILL work for 3d ICs if we can find out a way to grow silicon crystals on top of amorphous surfaces. The top layer of ICs is pretty much a silicon oxide, which is not a crystal structure. If we can grow a silicon crystal on top of this oxide, we can then start a new IC right on top of the old layers.
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This is somewhat obvious, but video games make a ton of money. A proffessor of mine last semseter told our class that video games actual have the largest percent of the market in terms of microprocessor sales.
Sure you can open source the developement, but somebody's going to have the bucks to pay for making the cds. W/ the mini-disk format, you're still going to have the financial hurdle of a proprietary format + licensing fees.
Sickening? I think you judge too harshly.
Your idealism has noble intentions, but there is no reason to fault people for indulging themselves. Of course there is an obvious point where self-indulgence is harmful to the population at large, but this is hardly a case of that. Would you fault somebody for buying new sports equipment so they feel they can play better instead of giving it directly to a charity? People work for their money, and they should be allowed to spend it as they see fit.
There is also the famous case of the horse who could do math. The owner would ask math questions, and the horse would beat out the answer with it's hoof. As it turns out, the owner was unintentionally giving out subtle signs with his facial expressions, indicating the horse had reaced the correct answer.
It's extremely impressive that the horse could recognize such changes in expression, but it demonstrated a type of intelligence that is fundamentally different from the kind exhibited by humans and chimps.
Somewhat offtopic, but still interesting.
Someone was once describing the art of writing patents to me. The idea is basically to make the patent wording broad enough to cover all future derivations of the patent, but at the same time not cover anything that had been developed before. Apparently, the most profitable patent ever written was for the first word processor and was something to the extent of "A program that tabs across the screen and fills in the blank spaces."
I can't say this is true, since I heard it second hand, but this basically covers all forms of word processors (word, wp, etc) and any other form type programs. I guess at the time, all other programs didn't follow this same flow of tabbing across the screen, so they didn't fall under the patent application. If this is true, some serious bank must have been made.
Your rant smacks of elitism, and your arrogance demonstrates a rather myopic view what the internet can be used for. This sort of intellectual chest thumping is full of massive generalizations, and as such, your opinions strike me as shallow. Your comments about US politics strike me as a knee-jerk reaction of an underinformed idealist, rather than having any sort of insight or worthwhile commentary.
As a general principle, the content of the internet should in no way be filtered, and the same goes for the users. The uninitiated user, who may get their service from AOL, has just as much of a right to be using the internet as you, no matter what their intent is.
If I remember right, resistance is inversely proportional to the cross-section area of the wire (i.e. how fat the wire is), but also directly proportional to lenght. something like R = K L/A, where K is some constant Assuming we're only changing dimensions in the x and y directions, L and A will be reduced by the same factor. i.e. smaller by a factor of s implies R = K (s*L / s*A). I'm asusming the z axis is not affected by this technology because that part of manufacturing is controlled by chemical reaction rates, instead of photolithography. If z were reduced to, A would be sized by a factor of s^2 instead of just s. So, I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if the x and y dimensions were reduced by the same factor, the effective resistance would remain the same.
Modern photolithography techniques WILL work for 3d ICs if we can find out a way to grow silicon crystals on top of amorphous surfaces. The top layer of ICs is pretty much a silicon oxide, which is not a crystal structure. If we can grow a silicon crystal on top of this oxide, we can then start a new IC right on top of the old layers.