Consider: 1. First they tried FUD, with Congressman Berry, (Dem, Arkansas) claiming that maybe the catfish were contaminated by Agent Orange. 2. Next, the Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) managed to persuade Congress to pass a law restricting the use of the word "catfish" to American varieties. 3. Neither of these diry tricks worked mainly because American consumers are not as stupid as they thought. So they decided to launch an anti-dumping suit. They petitioned the department of commerce to work out how much it would cost to raise hypothetical catfish in India, fillet and freeze them in imaginary factories, and ship them in phantom boats to America. When you resort to this level of creative accounting it is not hard to get the answer you want. Evil Vietnamese catfish barons are dumping below cost catfish on struggling American farmers.
Of course no-one wants to consider the obvious reason - catfish are plentiful in Vietnam and labour is cheap.
You can no more "Forget Moore's Law" than you can roll back history. It is driven by competition. It would be commercial suicide for AMD or Intel to decide enough was enough and declare, "there you go that ought to be fast enough for you".
In any case the article shows a fundamental misuderstanding of the industry and its driving forces. The principle driving force is to lower costs and this is the chief effect of Moore's law. The focus is not on building supercomputers but super-cheap computers. Of course this has the effect of lowering the costs of supercomputers as well. The anecdote from Google is a perfect example of the benefits of Moore's law, not a sign of it becoming redundant or dangerous.
Some of the biggest changes are seen in the embedded world - e.g mobile phones. Intel's vision is of putting radios on every chip.
In his 1995 book, "The Man In the Ice", Konrad Spindler described in detail the iceman's equipment including his quiver, which he shows conclusively was badly damaged BEFORE it was frozen. In particular, its strap was torn off and the lid damaged.
The natural place to wear a quiver is slung over your back. If the iceman had fallen surely it is certainly possible that he fell on his back. Thq quiver would then be placed between his body and the ground, pushing one of the arrows through the quiver and into his scapula. This would also account for the damage to the quiver and I am surprised this possibility has not been mentioned.
The iceman also has serial rib fractures on one side - it is not possible to tell if this happened pre-mortem or not, but he does say that serial rib fractures are common in falls.
Of course the fact that the arrows would be point-down in the quiver means that the arrow would probably have pushed through the bottom of the quiver.
Yeah but Spindler failed to notice the 2cm stonearrowhead in his back. This is not old news. The first thing you do with a mummy is x-ray it. IAll the same can't fault his deduction that he had suffered "a disaster". Kindof like finding a smoking gun, but missing the bullet hole in the corpse.
Konrad Spindler must have egg on his face now. The first thing you do with a mummy is to x-ray it.
Still in his book he does argue that the iceman had suffered from an "unknown disaster" because the iceman's quiver was clearly damaged before his death.
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Consider:
1. First they tried FUD, with Congressman Berry, (Dem, Arkansas) claiming that maybe the catfish were contaminated by Agent Orange.
2. Next, the Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) managed to persuade Congress to pass a law restricting the use of the word "catfish" to American varieties.
3. Neither of these diry tricks worked mainly because American consumers are not as stupid as they thought. So they decided to launch an anti-dumping suit. They petitioned the department of commerce to work out how much it would cost to raise hypothetical catfish in India, fillet and freeze them in imaginary factories, and ship them in phantom boats to America. When you resort to this level of creative accounting it is not hard to get the answer you want. Evil Vietnamese catfish barons are dumping below cost catfish on struggling American farmers.
Of course no-one wants to consider the obvious reason - catfish are plentiful in Vietnam and labour is cheap.
In any case the article shows a fundamental misuderstanding of the industry and its driving forces. The principle driving force is to lower costs and this is the chief effect of Moore's law. The focus is not on building supercomputers but super-cheap computers. Of course this has the effect of lowering the costs of supercomputers as well. The anecdote from Google is a perfect example of the benefits of Moore's law, not a sign of it becoming redundant or dangerous.
Some of the biggest changes are seen in the embedded world - e.g mobile phones. Intel's vision is of putting radios on every chip.
In his 1995 book, "The Man In the Ice", Konrad Spindler described in detail the iceman's equipment including his quiver, which he shows conclusively was badly damaged BEFORE it was frozen. In particular, its strap was torn off and the lid damaged.
The natural place to wear a quiver is slung over your back. If the iceman had fallen surely it is certainly possible that he fell on his back. Thq quiver would then be placed between his body and the ground, pushing one of the arrows through the quiver and into his scapula. This would also account for the damage to the quiver and I am surprised this possibility has not been mentioned.
The iceman also has serial rib fractures on one side - it is not possible to tell if this happened pre-mortem or not, but he does say that serial rib fractures are common in falls.
Of course the fact that the arrows would be point-down in the quiver means that the arrow would probably have pushed through the bottom of the quiver.
Of course it is not nearly as newsworthy...
Philip
Yeah but Spindler failed to notice the 2cm stonearrowhead in his back. This is not old news. The first thing you do with a mummy is x-ray it. IAll the same can't fault his deduction that he had suffered "a disaster". Kindof like finding a smoking gun, but missing the bullet hole in the corpse.
Konrad Spindler must have egg on his face now. The first thing you do with a mummy is to x-ray it.
Still in his book he does argue that the iceman had suffered from an "unknown disaster" because the iceman's quiver was clearly damaged before his death.
Philip