http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=198 3
Late last week various reports began to hint that the US DOJ price fixing investigations against the Big 4 memory producers; Samsung, Micron, Hynix, and Infineon. The EU has launched a separate probe against the same companies with regard to the extremely unusual increase in DRAM prices that lasted between November 2001 and May 2002. As part of court documents in the now dismissed FTC case against Rambus, an email sent from a Micron employee claiming with regard to memory suppliers Samsung and Infineon states; "..if Micron makes the move, all of them will do the same and make it stick".
Two months later, we began to see memory prices increase bizarrely. After the disclosure of this email (and others), the US Department of Justice has launched this new investigation on grounds of antitrust practices. Micron officials claim the email released from the FTC vs. Rambus case has nothing to do with the recent DOJ probe.
So what exactly happened those fateful months in 2001/2002? At the time the incident, the composition of the memory market was slightly different than it is today:
Manufacturer
Market Share
Samsung
30%
Micron
17%
Hynix
13%
Infineon
12%
Elpida
6%
Nanya
5%
Samsung was by far the largest DRAM producer in 2001, and one of the exclusive RDRAM producers as well (along with Elpida). Samsung and Hynix are headquartered in Korea, Micron in the US, and Infineon in Germany. Micron has a long history of complaining to the FTC about foreign memory manufacturers dumping memory into the US below cost in order to solidify contracts and market dominance.
Gosh, I find it so enlightning to see that there are people out there having the same problems that I do. Please, help!
Typical solutions, such as "go out", won't work, because most of the people have enough contact during their work, so they are simply not ready for every day hanging around after work.
I once saw a documentary on TV about some traveller and adventurist (I can't remember his name) who told that he once met some highlander who used the very same technique to orient in the snowstorms.
the cartel accelerated its Human Defensive Programme, sending out its testing machines - dubbed HumanSure and HumanView - to the largest international human labs. Traditionally, these labs analyzed and certified living beings. Now they were being asked to distinguish between natural and artificial humans. "Ideally the trade would like to have a simple instrument that could positively identify a human as natural or synthetic," Scientists wrote, when the company unveiled plans to develop authentication devices. "Unfortunately, our research has led us to conclude that it is not feasible at this time to produce such an ideal instrument, in as much as synthetic humans are still humans physically and chemically.
It could be a moon that hit Jupiter a long time ago, or some giant crater under the layers of clouds. I bet that there must be a surface structure under those spots.
I guess that over time the costs of such a technology will drop down, and it is interesting to see would it go low enough to be massively affordable. In that case, the laws for regulating it would probably be needed. That will open a completely new chapter in the laws regarding privacy.
I live in a country where minors are legal to buy and drink alcohol. When I was 16, I used to get drunk at least twice a week, every week. I got to know the effects of alcohol *very well* at that age. I am 25 now, and I drink less than one glass of drink a week. I was exposed to alcohol at the age when it couldn't do too much harm to me (career, family, drink'n'drive), and I learned to cope with it.
It's the same with video games: I used to be a video game addict when I was younger. I still like to play games, but I can stay away from them if I want.
Take the games away from the kids, and you'll get a bunch of grown up people playing games.
We don't yet know what consequences in economy, ideology, politics, war, this event will have, but one thing is sure: the US, which, till now, perceived itself as an island exempted from this kind of violence, witnessing this kind of things only from the safe distance of the TV screen, is now directly involved. So the alternative is: will Americans decide to fortify further their "sphere," or to risk stepping out of it? Either America will persist in, strengthen even, the attitude of "Why should this happen to us? Things like this don't happen HERE!", leading to more aggressivity towards the threatening Outside, in short: to a paranoiac acting out. Or America will finally risk stepping through the fantasmatic screen separating it from the Outside World, accepting its arrival into the Real world, making the long-overdued move from "A thing like this should not happen HERE!" to "A thing like this should not happen ANYWHERE!". America's "holiday from history" was a fake: America's peace was bought by the catastrophes going on elsewhere. Therein resides the true lesson of the bombings: the only way to ensure that it will not happen HERE again is to prevent it going on ANYWHERE ELSE.
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In soviet Russia, the astronauts pay you.
Anandtech theory:
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http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=19
Late last week various reports began to hint that the US DOJ price fixing investigations against the Big 4 memory producers; Samsung, Micron, Hynix, and Infineon. The EU has launched a separate probe against the same companies with regard to the extremely unusual increase in DRAM prices that lasted between November 2001 and May 2002. As part of court documents in the now dismissed FTC case against Rambus, an email sent from a Micron employee claiming with regard to memory suppliers Samsung and Infineon states; "..if Micron makes the move, all of them will do the same and make it stick". Two months later, we began to see memory prices increase bizarrely. After the disclosure of this email (and others), the US Department of Justice has launched this new investigation on grounds of antitrust practices. Micron officials claim the email released from the FTC vs. Rambus case has nothing to do with the recent DOJ probe. So what exactly happened those fateful months in 2001/2002? At the time the incident, the composition of the memory market was slightly different than it is today: Manufacturer Market Share Samsung 30% Micron 17% Hynix 13% Infineon 12% Elpida 6% Nanya 5% Samsung was by far the largest DRAM producer in 2001, and one of the exclusive RDRAM producers as well (along with Elpida). Samsung and Hynix are headquartered in Korea, Micron in the US, and Infineon in Germany. Micron has a long history of complaining to the FTC about foreign memory manufacturers dumping memory into the US below cost in order to solidify contracts and market dominance.
Gosh, I find it so enlightning to see that there are people out there having the same problems that I do. Please, help!
Typical solutions, such as "go out", won't work, because most of the people have enough contact during their work, so they are simply not ready for every day hanging around after work.
I once saw a documentary on TV about some traveller and adventurist (I can't remember his name) who told that he once met some highlander who used the very same technique to orient in the snowstorms.
In a not too distant future...
the cartel accelerated its Human Defensive Programme, sending out its testing machines - dubbed HumanSure and HumanView - to the largest international human labs. Traditionally, these labs analyzed and certified living beings. Now they were being asked to distinguish between natural and artificial humans. "Ideally the trade would like to have a simple instrument that could positively identify a human as natural or synthetic," Scientists wrote, when the company unveiled plans to develop authentication devices. "Unfortunately, our research has led us to conclude that it is not feasible at this time to produce such an ideal instrument, in as much as synthetic humans are still humans physically and chemically.
What!? There is another Saddam!? Prepare troops, arm weapons, invent interstellar drive! We'll get him!!!
The site Ex Astris Scientia concentrates on measuring and comparing Star Trek ships, but it's still an impressive effort.
It could be a moon that hit Jupiter a long time ago, or some giant crater under the layers of clouds. I bet that there must be a surface structure under those spots.
Aerospaceweb.org
Marc Schaeffer's page
They should've named the new Terminator "T-XP".
The story on CNN:
n jaro.thaw.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/10/17/kilima
I guess that over time the costs of such a technology will drop down, and it is interesting to see would it go low enough to be massively affordable. In that case, the laws for regulating it would probably be needed. That will open a completely new chapter in the laws regarding privacy.
I live in a country where minors are legal to buy and drink alcohol. When I was 16, I used to get drunk at least twice a week, every week. I got to know the effects of alcohol *very well* at that age. I am 25 now, and I drink less than one glass of drink a week. I was exposed to alcohol at the age when it couldn't do too much harm to me (career, family, drink'n'drive), and I learned to cope with it.
It's the same with video games: I used to be a video game addict when I was younger. I still like to play games, but I can stay away from them if I want.
Take the games away from the kids, and you'll get a bunch of grown up people playing games.
We don't yet know what consequences in economy, ideology, politics, war, this event will have, but one thing is sure: the US, which, till now, perceived itself as an island exempted from this kind of violence, witnessing this kind of things only from the safe distance of the TV screen, is now directly involved. So the alternative is: will Americans decide to fortify further their "sphere," or to risk stepping out of it? Either America will persist in, strengthen even, the attitude of "Why should this happen to us? Things like this don't happen HERE!", leading to more aggressivity towards the threatening Outside, in short: to a paranoiac acting out. Or America will finally risk stepping through the fantasmatic screen separating it from the Outside World, accepting its arrival into the Real world, making the long-overdued move from "A thing like this should not happen HERE!" to "A thing like this should not happen ANYWHERE!". America's "holiday from history" was a fake: America's peace was bought by the catastrophes going on elsewhere. Therein resides the true lesson of the bombings: the only way to ensure that it will not happen HERE again is to prevent it going on ANYWHERE ELSE.