Gary Hildebrand wrote:
>
- BIG SNIP -
> May I stand up and applaud your honesty . . .
>
> May I add a couple of quotes from an old college roommate who went on to
> design harddrives fro Hewlett-Packard, IOmega and Maxtor . . . .
>
> 1. Once a computer or operating system becomes a standard, it is
> obsolete.
>
> 2. You can't BS electrons.
Try telling #2 to many of the economists on advisory boards for
electric deregulation. They still seem to believe that, given
the right economic incentives, an electron may be convinced to
forgo the call to heed Kirchoff's laws, and act in its best
economic interest. Only until recent events in the California,
New York and Penn-Maryland-New Jersey markets have some of the
politicians begun to hear to some of the engineering concerns and
actually pay attention.
Sorry for the out of topic post. But hey, we were talking about
[mono,duo,oligo]poly concerns...
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Carlos Murillo-Sanchez email: cem14_at_cornell.edu
428 Phillips Hall, Electrical Engineering Department
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Received on Fri Apr 07 2000 - 12:56:08 BST