The Transistor's 60th Birthday 185
Apple Acolyte sends in a Forbes piece noting the 60th birthday of the transistor on Dec, 16. For the occasion the AP provides the obligatory Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article. From Forbes: "Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world's first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so impossibly bulky, hot and power hungry."
The hell? (Score:5, Funny)
This post is at least 5 minutes old and no comments?
Either no one cares about the poor transistor, or you've all gotten lives.
As every audiophile knows... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Transisor's Significance (Score:4, Funny)
Feel free to send me my 20 whenever you get the chance. What sort of transistors are these? MOSFETs? BJTs? N-channel, P-channel? I like them all.
Last post! (Score:1, Funny)
Headline from February 7, 2496:
Nearly 5 centuries after it was predicted, Moore's Law has finally come to an end. Having nothing to report, Slashdot's servers collapsed in a puff of 2048-qubit floating point reals.
... more on that later. But first, President Bush CXXIII was seen picking his nose in public...
Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The hell? (Score:4, Funny)
It was all part of an electronics toy set called "Electronic Engineering", where you could build various gadgets by connecting components in predefined ways. Very cool, but unfortunately I was far too young to understand what I was doing. Still it did capture my attention and speed me on the road to geekdom.
Re:As every audiophile knows... (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory quote from 1947 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The hell? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who really "invented" transistors. (Score:3, Funny)
You write this in 2007 and mention a UFO incident on 7/7 1947... Coincidence?
2 posts about this subject appear on this page, one enumerating 2 points and the other mentioning 2 dates, and these posts appear 22 minutes apart... Coincidence?
I think not. Clearly this can't be coincidence. Clearly you're an alien pretending to be a conspiracy theorist.
Re:As every camper knows... (Score:5, Funny)
Right up until the next morning when you wish you had a hot shower and room service.
iPod Nano (Score:3, Funny)