Not to sound like flamebait or anything, but...
Wouldn't it be interesting if they let it be a little laissez-faire? Even if they KNEW exactly what was going on, if it were absolutely evident that two RAM companies were in a price-fixing collusion. A third and fourth company might come along and sell much closer to cost, tearing Infineon et al to shreds and causing them to learn their lesson.
According to the article, it says:
The "law" was adopted after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote in the 1965 Electronics magazine article that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 24 months.
Now, if I remember right, that figure is supposed to be every 18 months! But it isn't. After a little looking, I found out that he really did say every two years. Interesting, don't you think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
Should PNG be licensed as well? Your "solution" implies that we should pay a license fee for every type of file format that we use. And this is just RAW data. Something around 25MB for 5 megapixels, and they didn't compress it to any extent. When I pay for a camera, I should be able to use it to its fullest extent with no strings attached. It's like having to take your car in to the dealer to get your odometer checked.
Is technology really the end all, be all in America? In the world? Some people do have priorities. And hey, by the way, I am a comp e major, and I realize this.
As soon as anything comes out, any development is made, someone wants to regulate it, or at least someone declares that it needs to be regulated. With a slight bit of foresight, one would not complain until there's something to complain about. Most of the times, things work out for the better...sometimes, things don't, and big deals are made. Nanotech needs a LOT of development and a lot of "space to work with," and limitations right now when there are essentially no problems is a bad idea. Any environmental issue right now with its development is just a drop in the bucket, and in a few years, we will probably have a "safer" solution, and a processor that is so fast that the desktop user won't even have to upgrade for eight years...
And someone in the private sector will do it for a $50 million dollar prize by 2020, costing the company only $75 million...$25 million for a good bit of publicity and once again opening people's eyes to the inefficiencies of NASA et al.
I have a P4 2.2 Gateway and plugged in a Dell minipci card, no problem. I'd almost rather have one of those ibm's though...that Gateway's falling apart! (No, I didn't buy it...I inherited it.)
What happens if something goes wrong? How about a cloud of micrometeoriods zipping right through one of these inflatables? Could we be seeing our first recorded deaths in space?
These aren't simple hydrocarbons though. A lot of the stuff won't even melt. Other things will react nastily. Some stuff can burn, i.e.: fiberglass.
What would they do with the electrolytes, the ceramic, the fiberglass, etc.?
I remember the days when at night I connected on the first line because I could actually get like 36-42kbps, and I forgot to put it back on the second line which was 28.8k and woke up to my mom screaming at me about using the data line. Heh.
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Not to sound like flamebait or anything, but... Wouldn't it be interesting if they let it be a little laissez-faire? Even if they KNEW exactly what was going on, if it were absolutely evident that two RAM companies were in a price-fixing collusion. A third and fourth company might come along and sell much closer to cost, tearing Infineon et al to shreds and causing them to learn their lesson.
According to the article, it says: The "law" was adopted after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote in the 1965 Electronics magazine article that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 24 months. Now, if I remember right, that figure is supposed to be every 18 months! But it isn't. After a little looking, I found out that he really did say every two years. Interesting, don't you think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
Should PNG be licensed as well? Your "solution" implies that we should pay a license fee for every type of file format that we use. And this is just RAW data. Something around 25MB for 5 megapixels, and they didn't compress it to any extent. When I pay for a camera, I should be able to use it to its fullest extent with no strings attached. It's like having to take your car in to the dealer to get your odometer checked.
Is technology really the end all, be all in America? In the world? Some people do have priorities. And hey, by the way, I am a comp e major, and I realize this.
Now if I were a little richer, I could have a remote control bee.
As soon as anything comes out, any development is made, someone wants to regulate it, or at least someone declares that it needs to be regulated. With a slight bit of foresight, one would not complain until there's something to complain about. Most of the times, things work out for the better...sometimes, things don't, and big deals are made. Nanotech needs a LOT of development and a lot of "space to work with," and limitations right now when there are essentially no problems is a bad idea. Any environmental issue right now with its development is just a drop in the bucket, and in a few years, we will probably have a "safer" solution, and a processor that is so fast that the desktop user won't even have to upgrade for eight years...
And someone in the private sector will do it for a $50 million dollar prize by 2020, costing the company only $75 million...$25 million for a good bit of publicity and once again opening people's eyes to the inefficiencies of NASA et al.
I have a P4 2.2 Gateway and plugged in a Dell minipci card, no problem. I'd almost rather have one of those ibm's though...that Gateway's falling apart! (No, I didn't buy it...I inherited it.)
What happens if something goes wrong? How about a cloud of micrometeoriods zipping right through one of these inflatables? Could we be seeing our first recorded deaths in space?
These aren't simple hydrocarbons though. A lot of the stuff won't even melt. Other things will react nastily. Some stuff can burn, i.e.: fiberglass. What would they do with the electrolytes, the ceramic, the fiberglass, etc.?
I remember the days when at night I connected on the first line because I could actually get like 36-42kbps, and I forgot to put it back on the second line which was 28.8k and woke up to my mom screaming at me about using the data line. Heh.