If M$ was a monopoly, they would have bought Netscape, Sun and AOL instead of competing with their own products. M$ could have owned the Internet, Gates would be a trillionaire instead of just a billionaire and been in no worse trouble with the Feds.
This goes far deeper than a simple excess by our jury system or parasitic lawyers. I sense a technology-induced backlash against geeks who are oblivious to the havoc we are unleashing by unwittingly destroying old hierarchies.
Current software will be trashed along with the Von Neumann machine architecture since the economics of molecules vs. silicon are significantly different. For instance, a fast pattern matcher could replace the ALU as the basic building block. We have no software to capitalize on this type of structure.
Regardless of the hardware, they'll always need software jocks since advances in this area occur very slowly. So start out in hardware and migrate to software engineering as the technology changes.
I have designed RISC machines. They are ultimately faster at the same clock speeds since the software designer has closer access to the hardware and can optimize his program. The typical CISC instruction is inefficient since most of its complexity can be unused when it executes. Since RISC cores are simpler they can host more parallelism, lookahead features and pipelining.
The Marxists proliferated after McCarthy's downfall and invaded our universities. They spread political correctness and now our society is in a tailspin. Nobody can make judgments anymore without being castigated. We can't even discipline our kids without a charge of child abuse. The nanny state is in charge and must find new victims to grow and prosper.
Traditional brick and mortar distribution channels worldwide are in a major panic over Internet e-commerce. IMHO, anything that eliminates the middleman is good for the consummer and the manufacturer. I say, bring it on !!
The net will eliminate the need for TV advertising and PAC softmoney as congresspeople start get their marching orders via online referendums from their constituents. They will have a list of each person in their district along with the person's vote on each referendum. I hear rumors that this infrastructure is about to debut, has anybody seen any announcements ?
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If M$ was a monopoly, they would have bought Netscape, Sun and AOL instead of competing with their own products. M$ could have owned the Internet, Gates would be a trillionaire instead of just a billionaire and been in no worse trouble with the Feds.
This goes far deeper than a simple excess by our jury system or parasitic lawyers. I sense a technology-induced backlash against geeks who are oblivious to the havoc we are unleashing by unwittingly destroying old hierarchies.
What good are ABM weapons when inexpensive briefcase sized nukes are hidden within our borders by enemies ?
Current software will be trashed along with the Von Neumann machine architecture since the economics of molecules vs. silicon are significantly different. For instance, a fast pattern matcher could replace the ALU as the basic building block. We have no software to capitalize on this type of structure.
Regardless of the hardware, they'll always need software jocks since advances in this area occur very slowly. So start out in hardware and migrate to software engineering as the technology changes.
I have designed RISC machines. They are ultimately faster at the same clock speeds since the software designer has closer access to the hardware and can optimize his program. The typical CISC instruction is inefficient since most of its complexity can be unused when it executes. Since RISC cores are simpler they can host more parallelism, lookahead features and pipelining.
The Marxists proliferated after McCarthy's downfall and invaded our universities. They spread political correctness and now our society is in a tailspin. Nobody can make judgments anymore without being castigated. We can't even discipline our kids without a charge of child abuse. The nanny state is in charge and must find new victims to grow and prosper.
Hung by their feet ? Or meters ?
Traditional brick and mortar distribution channels worldwide are in a major panic over Internet e-commerce. IMHO, anything that eliminates the middleman is good for the consummer and the manufacturer. I say, bring it on !!
The net will eliminate the need for TV advertising and PAC softmoney as congresspeople start get their marching orders via online referendums from their constituents. They will have a list of each person in their district along with the person's vote on each referendum. I hear rumors that this infrastructure is about to debut, has anybody seen any announcements ?