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Comment SOLUTION for CMOS "band gap" (Score 3, Interesting) 118

I suggest we go back a few levels and back to the 1970's when TTL was being replaced because of it's higher voltages. Remember back when core memory was replaced but before CMOSS? These were the TTL eras made by similar but NOT THE SAME transistors.

1. Silicone bandgap of CMOSS is higher than TTL
2. Gate length is more fabricable. (Fabricate the gates in Mexico; say they were made in USA)
3. Drain has "quantum clogging" problems in TTL but not CMOSS
4. Dopant levels make GaAs less commercially feasible.
5. Wafer sizes still dominated by "silicon" technology. It is not cheaper to go to more e-toxic and alien technologies. Far cheaper to stick with the wafers commercially produced today. GaAs and Indium Phosphate are like communion wafers!!!
6. Investors. We need to keep money at the fore front. Global depression is iminint. Must make cheep and available components with "WHAT WE HAVE" allready!!

TTL. I think its a good idea.

-KD

Comment Doomsday device! (Score 5, Funny) 232

It must be a doomsday device. There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.

Comment End fiat currency! End THE FEDERAL RESERVE!!! (Score 0, Insightful) 943

I saw this insightful comment and will post it here.

How about this! If we took the power away from a bunch of secret bank mobsters to PRINT MONEY and instead backed it with gold or some other finite, precious commodity, the dollar would retain its value.

I'm sick and tired of this implicit tax that I have just because I *HOLD* a dollar. Read Greenspan's "Gold and Economic Freedom" essay. Once it's started, that money which is printed out can only be repaid by printing more money. This is the shabby key to the (corporate/social) welfare state that exists today.

The reference is here: http://www.321gold.com/fed/greenspan/1966.html

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