What we (the physics geeks) all want to know is how efficient it is. This thing sounds great if it can run on only heat and deuterium, but how much heat and deuterium is needed?
[i]"But, alas, people don't save. Instead they run up credit card debt. Rather than have savings that reap modest interest/dividend gains which accumulate over time, they pay out double digit interest on short term debt."[/i]
True, but if nobody borrowed money from banks then the banks would have no reason to borrow money from investors. What would you do then?:). There are other investment options of course, but for many people (myself included), banks are the preferred option due to the low risk. So personally, I hope all those people should [i]continue[/i] borrowing so that I can keep earning!
"In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor..."
A company is not the same as a single person working independantly, which is what the article text was saying. It's not as if someone just said "I'm bored, I think I'll design a new processor archeticture!". Those engineers where hired by Intel and worked together with the rest of the company (many, many people) to produce a chip.
"Impossible? What about the guys who invented the first chips? Did they go to some class that taught how to build chips which will be invented in the future?"
Nobody 'invented' the computer chip. It was a combination of efforts from many persons/institutions - much like cars and space rockets and quantum theory.
Slashdot Mirror
What we (the physics geeks) all want to know is how efficient it is. This thing sounds great if it can run on only heat and deuterium, but how much heat and deuterium is needed?
like hot air to me!
[i]"But, alas, people don't save. Instead they run up credit card debt. Rather than have savings that reap modest interest/dividend gains which accumulate over time, they pay out double digit interest on short term debt."[/i] True, but if nobody borrowed money from banks then the banks would have no reason to borrow money from investors. What would you do then? :). There are other investment options of course, but for many people (myself included), banks are the preferred option due to the low risk. So personally, I hope all those people should [i]continue[/i] borrowing so that I can keep earning!
"In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor..."
A company is not the same as a single person working independantly, which is what the article text was saying. It's not as if someone just said "I'm bored, I think I'll design a new processor archeticture!".
Those engineers where hired by Intel and worked together with the rest of the company (many, many people) to produce a chip.
"Impossible? What about the guys who invented the first chips? Did they go to some class that taught how to build chips which will be invented in the future?" Nobody 'invented' the computer chip. It was a combination of efforts from many persons/institutions - much like cars and space rockets and quantum theory.
1: Theorize alternative data storage means with total disregard for reality and submit a story on it to /.
2: ???
3: Profit!