There are 3.9 million miles of roads in the United States. To enforce existing traffic laws, we'd need about 1 policeman every 500 feet, 24/7/365 (3 shifts + replacements for days off =~ 4 shifts.) So, about 164 million policemen wasting their lives enforcing traffic laws. That's more than the entire workforce in the country.
Think before proposing solutions that involve the government.
If they had disclosed it, the standard would probably have been different. Standard making groups generally don't want to base their standard on a technology owned by a single company.
AMD had superior processors for several years. Motherboard and name brand computer manufacturers were too slow to incorporate AMD's product, and to some extent AMD was production limited. Part of the reluctance of computer manufacturers to shift to AMD was due to (illegal) contracts restricting the manufacturers to exclusive use of Intel processors.
By the time AMD had gained significant market share, Intel was starting to recover from its design blunders and challenging AMD's performance dominance. For AMD, the gain in market share had come too late to enable them to make the gains stick.
Intel has the cash and intelligence to stay a generation ahead in silicon technology. For Intel to lose the performance lead again, they'd have to make a clusterfuck like the P4 again.
The dividend is small (2.8%) because the price is high. If the price doubled, the dividend would be only 1.4%.
Market forces determine the stock price, profits and company policy determine the dividend amount. The dividend percentage is to some extent beyond the company's control.
Microsoft's payout ratio (dividend/profits) is 25%, which is reasonable for a tech stock and reasonable for a stock that hasn't been paying a dividend for decades.
Have you ever bothered to listen to a corporate conference call? The questioners are almost always employees of major brokerages asking for clarifications of the financial statements or other important issues. I've listened to over 50 of these calls, heard in excess of 1000 questions, and I don't think I heard more that 3 that were from individual investors. The closest I ever heard to "bleating" was some fool feminist who insisted that the company should put women on the board.
Buffet is screwing the American people by advocating that the government steal from them, both during life and afterwards. Good advice on even major issues like the derivatives blunder pales in comparison to a central philosophy of rights violation.
What's worse is that over the 10 year period, Microsoft not only trailed the famous high fliers, but MSFT trailed the NASDAQ composite and the S&P 500, even if dividends are included. Such traditional stock selection methods as monkeys or throwing darts would produce better results.
Although it's nice to call it CMOS, and indeed both N and P channel devices are used, all the fastest silicon processors use N channel devices for the logic path. CMOS runs about 1/4 the speed on NMOS.
My understanding of gallium arsenide MOS (and I could easily be wrong) is that its speed advantage for logic started running out at about the 0.35 micron (350 nm) node, which is where Vitesse gave up and very nearly went out of business. The future might not be silicon, but there's little change of it being GaAs.
There is such a thing as oversupply, but it's not common because it's a problem. At one time, overproduction and hence oversupply of Hula Hoops put the Whamo Corporation in financial trouble (i.e. they couldn't sell enough of what they made.) If there weren't oversupply, there wouldn't be surplus and overstock stores, liquidation sales, and junkyards.
The essence of capitalism is production and trade for profit. Governance is an edge constraint, it is not part of the central mechanism. And conflating governance with government is dishonest.
If I hire people who aren't worth the minimum wage I pay them, I go broke, I go out of business, and then once again they don't have a job. Then everybody's worse off than they were in the first place. It isn't a question of "wanting", it's a question of not acting like an idiot.
and don't expect a recovery before 2018 - 2020, if then.
The US economy is dominated by the effects of government: Regulations, restrictions, land theft and removal of land from productive use, tax magnitude and the particular things that are taxed, corrupt movement of money to inferior enterprises (Solyndra, GM, Chrysler, various banks, brokers, and insurance companies), minimum wage laws, etc.. If these things are corrected, there will be an obvious and dramatic recovery within a month.
I remember hearing about 8 years ago that all recoveries are "jobless" initially. Stockpiles of goods and supplies are depleted, and production resumes to fill the supply lines. Underutilized workers stop slacking, and then are encouraged to work harder. Demand increases more and workers do some overtime. As production becomes steady at levels higher that non-overtime work can maintain, then finally more workers are hired (because overtime is expensive and wears people out.)
Thus, the initial stages of a recovery don't involve hiring; they're jobless.
Removing heat is the big problem. Every time you double the number of active layers,
___ you double the heat power
___you double the distance the heat has to travel, thus doubling the heat rise of the innermost layer
Combining the two effects, the innermost layer rises in temperature by a factor of 4, which means that speed has to be reduced by a factor of 4 to get back down to the temperature of the previous iteration. Thus twice as many layers means 2/4 times the processing power.
There's a gain to be had through shorter interconnects, because that means lower capacitance and lower speed-of-light delays, which in turn means more speed and lower power. However, that aspect of improvement quickly hits the point of diminishing returns. Modern ICs with 6 or so layers of interconnect metal can be surprisingly thick, so a signal leaving one plane for processing on the next gets a possibly significant delay.
It's quite easy to pick lettuce. Do you really believe that your hypothetical white kid couldn't pick a head every 15 seconds, 240 an hour, for less than 3 cents a head including overhead? That's about 3% of the retail price of a head of lettuce. There's less than 2 cents worth of lettuce per hamburger. The big expenses in a hamburger are beef, retail employee wages and benefits, franchise fees, profits, and physical plant.
No contributions to campaigns and strict limits on ads and such.
You're proposing that only the very rich will be able to run a campaign (more so than now) and that the habitual liars in the media will be the primary source of information on candidates for public office. Yeah, that'll work out well.
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Don't know much about optics, do you?
Learn some physics. Hint: "coefficient of friction"
It is not possible to demonize the term "socialism", because that philosophy of universal theft is already pure evil.
There are 3.9 million miles of roads in the United States. To enforce existing traffic laws, we'd need about 1 policeman every 500 feet, 24/7/365 (3 shifts + replacements for days off =~ 4 shifts.) So, about 164 million policemen wasting their lives enforcing traffic laws. That's more than the entire workforce in the country.
Think before proposing solutions that involve the government.
Caterpillar corporation reports a great upswing in the purchase of earthmoving equipment to little green men.
Unfortunately, she's caught a terrible disease from the mole rats: she looks like one.
Call Rocky and Bullwinkle. We must protect this precious resource from Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, lest they steal it.
On a more serious note, what's the mass of this stuff needed to fill a Volkswagen?
If they had disclosed it, the standard would probably have been different. Standard making groups generally don't want to base their standard on a technology owned by a single company.
AMD had superior processors for several years. Motherboard and name brand computer manufacturers were too slow to incorporate AMD's product, and to some extent AMD was production limited. Part of the reluctance of computer manufacturers to shift to AMD was due to (illegal) contracts restricting the manufacturers to exclusive use of Intel processors.
By the time AMD had gained significant market share, Intel was starting to recover from its design blunders and challenging AMD's performance dominance. For AMD, the gain in market share had come too late to enable them to make the gains stick.
Intel has the cash and intelligence to stay a generation ahead in silicon technology. For Intel to lose the performance lead again, they'd have to make a clusterfuck like the P4 again.
The dividend is small (2.8%) because the price is high. If the price doubled, the dividend would be only 1.4%.
Market forces determine the stock price, profits and company policy determine the dividend amount. The dividend percentage is to some extent beyond the company's control.
Microsoft's payout ratio (dividend/profits) is 25%, which is reasonable for a tech stock and reasonable for a stock that hasn't been paying a dividend for decades.
Have you ever bothered to listen to a corporate conference call? The questioners are almost always employees of major brokerages asking for clarifications of the financial statements or other important issues. I've listened to over 50 of these calls, heard in excess of 1000 questions, and I don't think I heard more that 3 that were from individual investors. The closest I ever heard to "bleating" was some fool feminist who insisted that the company should put women on the board.
Buffet is screwing the American people by advocating that the government steal from them, both during life and afterwards. Good advice on even major issues like the derivatives blunder pales in comparison to a central philosophy of rights violation.
What's worse is that over the 10 year period, Microsoft not only trailed the famous high fliers, but MSFT trailed the NASDAQ composite and the S&P 500, even if dividends are included. Such traditional stock selection methods as monkeys or throwing darts would produce better results.
Egads, I've must be more careful. 1/4 the speed of NMOS
little chance of it being GaAs.
Sorry
Although it's nice to call it CMOS, and indeed both N and P channel devices are used, all the fastest silicon processors use N channel devices for the logic path. CMOS runs about 1/4 the speed on NMOS.
My understanding of gallium arsenide MOS (and I could easily be wrong) is that its speed advantage for logic started running out at about the 0.35 micron (350 nm) node, which is where Vitesse gave up and very nearly went out of business. The future might not be silicon, but there's little change of it being GaAs.
Dogs have a reciprocal defense contract with humans. Eating a dog is breach of contract.
There is such a thing as oversupply, but it's not common because it's a problem. At one time, overproduction and hence oversupply of Hula Hoops put the Whamo Corporation in financial trouble (i.e. they couldn't sell enough of what they made.) If there weren't oversupply, there wouldn't be surplus and overstock stores, liquidation sales, and junkyards.
Ad hominem is not a tool of cognition.
The essence of capitalism is production and trade for profit. Governance is an edge constraint, it is not part of the central mechanism. And conflating governance with government is dishonest.
If I hire people who aren't worth the minimum wage I pay them, I go broke, I go out of business, and then once again they don't have a job. Then everybody's worse off than they were in the first place. It isn't a question of "wanting", it's a question of not acting like an idiot.
The US economy is dominated by the effects of government: Regulations, restrictions, land theft and removal of land from productive use, tax magnitude and the particular things that are taxed, corrupt movement of money to inferior enterprises (Solyndra, GM, Chrysler, various banks, brokers, and insurance companies), minimum wage laws, etc.. If these things are corrected, there will be an obvious and dramatic recovery within a month.
I remember hearing about 8 years ago that all recoveries are "jobless" initially. Stockpiles of goods and supplies are depleted, and production resumes to fill the supply lines. Underutilized workers stop slacking, and then are encouraged to work harder. Demand increases more and workers do some overtime. As production becomes steady at levels higher that non-overtime work can maintain, then finally more workers are hired (because overtime is expensive and wears people out.)
Thus, the initial stages of a recovery don't involve hiring; they're jobless.
Combining the two effects, the innermost layer rises in temperature by a factor of 4, which means that speed has to be reduced by a factor of 4 to get back down to the temperature of the previous iteration. Thus twice as many layers means 2/4 times the processing power.
There's a gain to be had through shorter interconnects, because that means lower capacitance and lower speed-of-light delays, which in turn means more speed and lower power. However, that aspect of improvement quickly hits the point of diminishing returns. Modern ICs with 6 or so layers of interconnect metal can be surprisingly thick, so a signal leaving one plane for processing on the next gets a possibly significant delay.
High risk investment is for entities other than banks. Private investors. Private loans. Venture capitalists.
It's quite easy to pick lettuce. Do you really believe that your hypothetical white kid couldn't pick a head every 15 seconds, 240 an hour, for less than 3 cents a head including overhead? That's about 3% of the retail price of a head of lettuce. There's less than 2 cents worth of lettuce per hamburger. The big expenses in a hamburger are beef, retail employee wages and benefits, franchise fees, profits, and physical plant.
You're proposing that only the very rich will be able to run a campaign (more so than now) and that the habitual liars in the media will be the primary source of information on candidates for public office. Yeah, that'll work out well.