Moore's Law

Gordon Moore's Law, according to WIkipedia and TechWorld, basically states that “the complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.”It was orginally published in Electronics Magazine in 1965. Moore stated that this trend would very likely continue at this rate for at least 10 years and possibly even longer after that. However, it seems that this trend cannot last forever.

In a TechWorld article, Moore himself states that "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens. In terms of size [of transistor] you can see that we're approaching the size of atoms which is a fundamental barrier, but it'll be two or three generations before we get that far - but that's as far out as we've ever been able to see. We have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit. By then they'll be able to make bigger chips and have transistor budgets in the billions."

Obviously, there's only so much we can do. Making a transistor that is smaller than the size of an atom is impossible with our current technologies. Eventually everything has to cap out. However, it is possible to create larger chips to hold more transistors. This eliminates trying to make a transistor as small as possible.

I strongly agree with Moore's comments, but given the advances in technology so far, I believe that an alternate solution can be found. It just takes some time.

Why Blogger?

It seems like every blogging service is the same; you make an account, write about stuff and post it. I didn't choose Blogger because I thought it was better than every other blogging service. In a class I have taken in the past, I have used Wordpress for posting comments about video as well as posting youtube videos that I made myself. In addition, I also became familiar with other blogging sites like Xanga and LiveJournal. So, out of curiosity, I decided to make a Blogger account because it's one of the services I have yet to use. So far nothing has surprised me, but I'm interested in finding out the different features of Blogger compared to the other services.

People have many different opinions about blogging. To me, it greatly depends on the person. During high school, everyone in my class had a Xanga account. Many students were obsessed and posted everything about their day and whatever problems they were having (relationship problems, issues with teachers, how much their life sucks, etc). However, the biggest problem is that all these entries are available for anyone to see. You never who might be viewing your page. In other words, it is an online diary in which anyone can see and post comments on.

On the plus side, blogs are great for posting updates about things other than what's going on in your life, things that are not personal. By not revealing personal information, you are protecting yourself greatly. For example, if you're a Bears fan, you can write articles about game predictions, player stats, how they match up in their conference, etc.


A am a huge football fan, so I plan on writing a lot of entries relating to the sport. Here is a list of websites I plan on using for future posts:

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.rivals.com

http://www.espn.com