h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*runs away to the next topic*

Moore's law states that the _density_ of chips will double every 18 months.

Not the price, computing power or anything else that will fit a mis-quote.

Liam.

You don't suppose there's a limit to that, do you? A point beyond which further density increases lead to irretrievable gravitional collapse?

I think he may have meant the density of components on the chip.

A lot of these statements and laws are useless without a shed-load of paperwork to explain them.

Moore never claimed that the law would be true all the way through the range. Law is the wrong word, axiom is closer.

Liam.

Actually, I thought you had eliminated the computer issue in your post, but given the electronic aspect, the limit would probably be at the point when the components are so densely packed that they interfere with each other at an unpredictable quantum level. Then the chip becomes practically useless in computing.

We saw on an Aussie programme (John Safran's Music Jamboree, it's very funny ) that unless musicians have writing credit on songs, they make almost nothing from record sales. That stinks!

Do you mean performance credits don't count?

For most recording contracts, performance credits amount to very, very little $. This is why being a studio musician is more of a calling and a love-of-the-job sort of thing than a fame-and-fortune decision. Having said that, there exists the "upper-class" of the elite, in-demand studio musicians that have their own special fees, which can be quite lucrative - but they don't get any more or less $ based on record sales. Hence performance credits on a record amount to little more than advertising and promotion for the musicians in question. Whatever works!

- JD

The real way to make money out of music is to either be ( a ) the management - and loathed by everybody, or ( b ) the songwriter (who gets paid the same as the singer but doesn't have to fork out for tour busses, backing groups, lighting rigs, stadium hire, advertising, roadies, trashed hotel rooms and the like)

In all of human history, there has never been a documented case of death by piranha.

There is no one place known as the Kremlin. Moscow has one, but so do lots of Russian cities. In Russian, Kremlin means a citadel or fortress. Also, Moscow's Kremlin is not a specific building, but a complex within a large walled space.

Really? Despite the adverts with piranha attacling people who haven't watched the Discovery channel... I am (almost)disappointed!

apparently, i read today, female praying mantises do NOT eat the male after sex - the observation of this behaviour was made when the mantises had been (unnaturally) starved for some time. When they aren't starved, they do a nice little post-coital dance.

This sounds like the study that proved that crickets hear through their legs.

In the test sample, the crickets jumped up and down when a tuning fork was sounded nearby. However there was no response to this stimulus after the insects' legs had been removed.



B

yes i'm quite sure if someone ripped my legs off i wouldn't be worrying about that annoying tuning fork that wouldn't stop it's ceaseless vibrating.

quite apart from the logistics of jumping up and down without legs

Pub quiz question:

How many times did Elvis visit the UK?
Answer: Never

WRONG! Elvis stopped at Scotland en route to the US when he was in the army.

>> Weather - Whether <<

Nor forgetting Wether (a casterated ram)

Donald

Not, certainly not forgetting the ram poor Toyota...

I'll tell you what's wrong --- Kipling's "The Jungle Book" put on as a Disney ice show!!! Wrong in so many ways......

SC

Thread about things that are WRONG?


Israeli helicopter gunships firing missiles at a wheelchair bound Palestinian as he's leaving a mosque