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From Moore's Law to Barrett's Rules
- gourneau 17y agoMy favorite section of the article: "Don't mess with Moore's Law. This metronome of the digital age, says Mr. Barrett, isn't really a law, but "a social contract, a road map, a sign post. It's something to hang in front of the bright, bushy-tailed new young graduates and tell them: 'We've kept this thing going for 40 years now, so don't screw it up' -- and by God, they don't." The social construction of computation :)
- jonnycoder 17y agoI feel that Obama and the Democratic Congress will swing way too far in the opposite direction of Bush and the Republicans. Yea I believe we still need stop anti-competitive behavior, especially AT&T and others. But am I the only one getting a feeling that they, the U.S., will use Intel as an example of an evil corporation taking excess profit (50%) and paying out HUGE bonuses ($6 million total to CEO)? Yet the results speak for themselves: lower prices and better performance (Moore's Law).
- dantheman 17y agoIf you look throughout history the only monopolies that exist are those granted by the government. Sure standard oil captures a huge chunk of the market (by lowering prices over 90%), but they lose that advantage, by the time antitrust action was taken against them it had already lost a large chunk of its market. Antitrust law was originally passed because of the government involvement in the train industry. Also, regulation increased under bush and so did oversight. We currently have the most regulations we've ever had, decelerating the rate of new regulation isn't actually removing it. Back To Hacking :)