China's domestic gdp is not comprised of the same products as it's exports. Certainly they consume a huge amount domestically, they have 1.3 billion people, but that does not mean that exports are less important.

If you want evidence of this just take a look at what happened last year when China's exports dropped 26%. They saw a significant downturn in the economy prompting a nearly 600 million dollar stimulus package.

China produces products cheap now, because they keep their citizens in the dark and essentially control what they can and cannot do and how to think. That will change, and when it does they will see demands for increased payroll, benefits and all the other things that we see outside of China.

So don't expect things to continue as they are.

A few things you are missing in your "analysis".

1. Per capita, their population has a lower percentage of skilled workers than the US, hence a lower average IQ.
2. Per capita, Chinese citizens are poorer, by far, than those in the US and cannot afford that new HDTV or car. They'd all like to have them, but can't.
3. A significant percentage of Chinese exports come from sales to the US, those same citizens you would imply are a problem. Without the US China's economy would be in serious trouble.

They are called, specifically, FPU's not FP's.

As for the cpu guys putting the gpu guys out of business... we know how successful Intel has been trying to do just that with their GPU offerings... you expect that to change in the next, say, 10 years? Not likely given their past track record of failure.

Curious.

You do know that phone companies have had this capability for years, right? They can, and do, pretty much anything they want to the remote platforms in the way of remote pushes of new features/capabilities/apps/etc. The extent of which they can do so will of course vary by model and capabilities of the device, but this should not be news to anyone.

Doesn't necessarily make it right, but not surprising in any event.

So you don't think Google's professional and you think that the things they do are random? Interesting....

Of course the fact that every movie avail on DVD has been out in the theaters already, and reviewed.... and music albums are played on radio stations regularly, and streamed...

Yeah you are right. Walmart is the problem you buy crappy DVD's and music, not you. They absolutely should take back that opened container that you absolutely did not RIP to your media server at home...

Please...

Wow! So I guess I should trade in my 35mpg car for a 20mpg car!

Really now, how is this helpful in the least? If I acquire a car that has a higher mpg rating than my current car I am saving MORE gas, so do I really care what happens from 10-20? No.

It's called "Pacing" but you were probably too young to know.

They followed you for a distance to get your speed.

Light bulbs work because they are filled with an inert gas NOT air. So your analogy does not apply here.

They can certainly be called to task for anti-competitive trade practices - like not allowing flash thereby creating a situation where untold numbers of companies are forced to modify their websites, drop certain advertisers and and thereby materially affecting Adobe's business.- just so they can use that to enter into the advertising market....

Don't be fooled by the pretty box cover, it's pretty dank and dark inside.

Why should drivers be standard for Linux? Considering that it represents a pretty minuscule percentage of their market it seems to me they are going above and beyond by supporting it at all. On top of that they have "standard" drivers for previous cards.

Seems to me they are doing the right thing.

Neither does your mom's! Shazam!

It's also a materials design problem. Primarily a material design problem. One could argue that you need more funding to design, but that's just twisting the argument to be self serving.

I have to agree. I'm not sure how stating the obvious "that this is "merely an engineering problem at this point" qualifies as insightful.... but I guess the bars been set a lot lower on SD of late ;)

What is important about this is NOT the obvious. It's that this should have been SO obvious. The problem with a cannon is one of "runway" if you will. Building a cannon above ground introduces huge amounts of engineering hurdles, much like building bigger and bigger buildings so oh on the scale of 3x what we have now. Put a cannon in the water however! Wala, relative density starts working for you, you can feasibly build a device that can be sustained at long lengths that can build acceleration in the package over the tube distance.

What I want to know is why we didn't think of this before.

Congratulations on CES purchasing controlling rights to the Venetian and Palazzo hotels such that they can control what you can or cannot do in your rented suite! What's next, you won't be able to fly into Vegas unless you have a CES badge?