Author, you ain’t accurate: there was overclocked transistor, but not processor. Tech has hit against its ceil: heat grows roughly by cubed freq., to low currents make processor vulnerable to electromagnetic noises. Only room now is more efficient architecture & more efficient programming. However, purpose-devoted hardware could have rank of speed about 100 Ghz or even more at actual freq of 1 Ghz.

dutchbb – If you are so sure that computer technology (the subject of the article; many people making comments can’t seem to even figure that out) is increasing exponentially where are your examples? I’m sitting here on a 4 year old quad core computer that, as far as I can tell, (unless I am willing to go to workstation hardware that will cost as much as a new car), is unable to be appreciably improved upon by even the most current available systems. Go back just 5 or 6 years and if you waited just 6 months to buy a computer you would get a significantly better machine for the same price (I know this since I bought a high end machine in 2004 that is now barely useful to my 7 year old daughter, and another high-end machine in 2006 that was much faster and bigger, but now used by my 9 year old daughter only). This slow down in *performance* in general is what the author is referring to. I won’t say one way or the other that all his arguments are 100% sound or even the reasoning, but it certainly seems to me that desktop PC technology has stagnated quite a bit when you think about it in terms of faster/bigger. For my job faster and bigger is my main requirement.

Quit failing & learn to search then. Found in under 5 seconds

http://colossalstorage.net/colossal4a.htm

Seems everyone wants something for nothing these days, pirated music, movies, and apps for example. We want the new technology and the biggest and the best processors, memory, and storage. But, on the other hand we have a problem with the people who invent and own rights to the technology making money on it.

I would bet any amount that if any of those who have posted here had the capacity to produce and sell 1GB SD cards you wouldn’t make 2GB SD cards till u exhausted the market for the 1GB cards. Why? Because that will maximize your profit. The “evil corporations” are in it for themselves! OF COURSE THEY ARE! What have you or I done for them? Why would they make your life easier at their expense?

These kind of articles always come off as conspiratorial and reveal this huge injustice put on corporations greed. But it’s really basic economics, just like planned obsolescence.

The same applies to cars. The auto manufacturer is out to make a maximum amount of profit by making cars that only last 10 years. If they make cars that last 150 years, their profits will plummet and they’ll go bankrupt because no one is buying cars. So it’s self preservation.

Just like when we “working class” people try to achieve the highest pay rate from our employer. None of us are philanthropists and we’re all trying to get the most we can from the people we offer our services and products to. Which makes this a massive non-story, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Simple bottom line: They have to make money to continue funding research for further advances. And if I were them I’d pump as much profit out of the general public as I could too. And I’m sure many of you would too.

but if we try to look at it in a perspective of the people who will suffer from a sudden leap of technology, like industrial automation, less production of computers and its parts,

what would happen to those people working in such industries, would it be enough to collapse the economy?

well more powerful tools means less work for humans, sounds good isn’t it? but not in the economy.

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Man you’re so fucking agitated. Are you electrocuted or something?

Of course there are 3,5 inch SSD’s, you don’t know anything, yet you’re the one who makes the author “imbecile”? You are with no doubt proving that you are the typical imbecile labeling those who you don’t understand as “imbeciles”.

Here’s some 3.5 inch SSD. Is it fucking fiction or something? Am I seeing things?
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/sata_3_5_solid_state_drives
http://www.imation.com/en-us/Imation-Products/Solid-State-Drives/M-Class-Solid-State-Drives1/

How about this other one?
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/2008/cebit/day1/supertalent-256GBSSD.jpg

Wow, would you look at that…

CPUs underutilized?? LOL maybe they are underutilized by a moron like you. I have a Quad Core + Hyper Threading (shows 8 cpus) and I tell you that its as slow as fuck for me and my needs.

Hey would you like to buy this imaginary 3,5 inch, 1TB SSD that doesn’t even exist?
http://www.a-power.com/product-14705-0-1

Anyway you’re missing the whole point and the point is that there have been scientists who invented great things but corporations just ignore them so they can get more money from us!

But, well what can I expect from an American? You’re just the typical brainwashed dumb American who voted for a nigger to be the leader of your country… :))

Thanks God I wasn’t born American!

The ignorance of the author is astounding. Who the F#$% are you that you think you have the knowledge to even make the arguments that you do. You are extremely ignorant and need to educate yourself.

SSD’s are not the same as CF memory. Different technology, faster technology, more reliable etc. Sure they could make the drives smaller. As you apparently do not know. SSD’s are not 3.5″ they are 2.5″ (Standard laptop form factor). They also require a control board that in many cases adds multiple channels to speed transfer, they contain a processor, cache memory etc.

You are an imbecile.