More did not do the economic research

[NWO Sentryman]

http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject

Apparently, the ev0l Capitalists make tech redundant after 18 months. However, what the video fails to understand is that technology changes significantly within such a space of time, and what was made 18 months ago may not be compatible with nrew developments.

Then there's a whole load of You Fail Economics Forever and a pinch of woo, suggesting teh Ev0l Capitalists:

- Deliberately poison water to force us to drink bottled water as well as deliberately put poisons into cosmetics.

The videos are pretty bad bad in terms of You Fail Economics Forever (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFailEconomicsForever)

[Sword_Of_Truth]

I hope that video was made on a Pentium 233 MMX running windows 98.

[NWO Sentryman]

I hope that video was made on a Pentium 233 MMX running windows 98.

:confused:

[Sword_Of_Truth]

:confused:

The video suggests that "Moores Law" is a capitalist plot to get us to buy more computers and ruin the planet.

So unless they made that video on a ten year old machine, I propose that they're a bunch of hypocrites and I don't have to worry about upgrading old slow machines any more than the makers of the video do.

Kind of like how former PETA vice-president and insulin dependent diabetic, Mary Beth Sweetland, defended her use of medical technology developed through animal testing. If she doesn't take her own beliefs seriously, then I don't either.

[Ziggurat]

They also got the technical details wrong. Moore didn't invent the semiconductor. He didn't invent the transistor either. He helped pioneer the integrated circuit.

And Moore's Law originally had nothing to do with processor speed, but rather with the number of transistors on an integrated circuit. Speed was just a corollary.

But perhaps the funniest bit was the whole "bosses of these genius designers". Gordon Moore was the co-founder and long-time CEO and Chairman of Intel. He was the boss.

[ingoa]

Can somebody please translate the OP into one of the more commonly used languages? I really did not get it. :confused:
For example "teh Ev0l Capitalists" did not ring a bell.... I am not an English native speaker. Or whatever the language was. It wasn't mine.....

[NWO Sentryman]

Can somebody please translate the OP into one of the more commonly used languages? I really did not get it. :confused:
For example "teh Ev0l Capitalists" did not ring a bell.... I am not an English native speaker. Or whatever the language was. It wasn't mine.....

I was mocking the yt channel i linked to in the OP.

[daenku32]

Who needs Moore's Law!

"Bill Buzbee, of Half Moon Bay, Calif., has built himself a Web server entirely from scratch. Scratch is, of course, a relative term. No, he didn't draw the copper into wires or slice the silicon into wafers. But he did construct his home-built CPU, called Magic-1, by meticulously wire-wrapping together some two hundred 74-series TTL chips. "
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-as-an-extreme-sport

[NWO Sentryman]

The Video has come out

http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject

Yep, so far (As of 2:00, it's getting into the woo)

[SezMe]

What's the difference between the OP and #9?

[NWO Sentryman]

the new video came out. :o

Din't have the exact url. But anyway, the video seems to assume malice in the "bosses" decisions. But technology changes so much within 18 months (how many people still run windows 98 or Mac OS 8?)

[Ziggurat]

The Video has come out

http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject

Yep, so far (As of 2:00, it's getting into the woo)

They did correct something from the original. Instead of claiming that Moore invented the semiconductor (false), they simply call him a semiconductor pioneer (true). But they still missed the fact that Moore was also chairman and CEO of Intel. The animation of some clueless money guy coming in and changing Moore's Law to "More" Law, and Moore shaking his head, is rather ahistoric.

I like the bit about modular design, though: their example is someone carrying a desktop computer. Desktop computers are already modular, and you can indeed simply swap out the broken component for a replacement part. That doesn't work well for smaller and cheaper devices, because the economics don't make sense, but you can't force economic fantasy to replace economic reality.

[Lithrael]

I never understand complaints like these. You CAN use a ten year old machine and ten year old software to do all the stuff they were doing ten years ago, and for a fraction of the price, if you want to. It's not cutting edge anymore, it's slower and not as pretty, but there's still plenty of utility there if that's what you want to use. Even ten year old editing suites can still do a whole lot of perfectly serviceable editing. "Industry standard" only tends to matter if you're working in an actual industry... at which point you usually have the money to spend on the bleeding edge stuff.